The complaint Legambiente: every 62 km of coastline polluted a stretch – the Newspaper

Italian, this year it is best not to swim in the sea. According to Legambiente , in fact, every 62 km of coastline there is a point polluted, often near beaches.

All the fault of the discharge non-purified through rivers, ditches and canals flow into Sea . A direct consequence of the lack of a proper sewage treatment, which still covers 42% of sewage in our country and that could cost Italy a penalty European salty.

Green Schooner Legambiente sailed along the Peninsula collecting 266 samples of water, and discovering bacterial loads exceeding the limits of the law in 45% of cases. To be polluted are 120 points, half of them at beaches almost always free. 49%, says the association, is not championship by the competent authorities, that is not under health checks, and 38% is swimming on the Portal of the Waters of the Ministry of Health, while they are only 14 points forbidden for swimming.

“A confirmation of the purification deficit – explains the scientific director of Legambiente, Giorgio Zampetti – there are two convictions came from the European Commission in 2012 and 2014, and the reasoned opinion of the March 2015 for the third infringement procedure against Italy for failure to comply with Directive 91/271 on sewage treatment civil. proceedings involving a cluster of three. ” Environmental damage but also economic: “It is estimated that the EU sanctions are equal to 476 million euro a year from 2016 until the completion of the works”.

Legambiente does not propose a ranking regional marine pollution but tend to promote Sardinia and the northern Adriatic and ball Marche, Abruzzo and Sicily, the latter with 14 contaminated samples of 26 analyzed ( here all data ). A ranking is instead on ‘ lawlessness , with 14,542 offenses recorded by the police and the port authorities for crimes related to the sea and the coast in 2014: approximately 40 per day, per 2 km of coastline. Apulia stands with 3,164 offenses, followed by Sicily (2346) Campania (1837) and Calabria (1370). On offenses detected per km of coastline, Campania is first with 3.9, followed by Puglia (3.7), Molise (3.1), Liguria (3) and Marche (2.9). The types of crime, says the president of Legambiente Vittorio Cogliati Dezza, “ranging from unlawful in cement production on state maritime pollution of the sea due to bad treatment, sewage, oil pollution, spillage of waste of various kinds, also if there are cases of poaching. ”