huerta de las pilas - acuifero english version

Colectivo Ornitológico Cigüeña Negra

Huerta de Las Pilas Lagoonand neighbouring water springs of San Bernabé

Algeciras(Strait of Gibraltar)

GIBRALTAR

ALGECIRAS

HUERTA DE LAS PILAS LAGOON

Migratory bird crossing point

MINING AREA

Gibraltar

Algeciras

Mining areas

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Lagoon

Nuevo Mirador Stadium

11 Mining area in the eighties.After the watertable emerged, the hole was back filled and covered. Today, the residential area of Huerta de las Pilas takes up this area.

Huerta de las Pilas Lagoon

Residential area

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Lagoon

Nuevo Mirador Stadium

SECOND EXTRACTION: today, Lagoon Huerta de las Pilas22

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Lagoon

Nuevo Mirador Stadium

THIRD MINERAL EXTRACTION:THIRD MINERAL EXTRACTION:ATTEMPT TO STOP WATER SPRINGSATTEMPT TO STOP WATER SPRINGS33

¿ANOTHER URBANIZATION PROJECT AT AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE?

GIBRALTAR

AQUIFER SYSTEM PALMONES- GUADARRANQUE

ALLUVIAL AQUIFER OF BOTAFUEGOS

SESE NWNW Huerta de Las Pilas Lagoon

Sand and sandy biolimestone

SandstoneGroundwater

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION HAZARD

Quarry in the 80’s:The new lagoon disappearedwhen the area was backfilled

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Huerta de Las Pilas Lagoon

EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment)

Directive 85/337/CEE

Environmental ImpactStatement 2003

¡¡¡there has been a lagoon in the area since 2002!!!

EIA (EnvironmentalImpact Assessment)

Directive 85/337/CEE

ACTIVITY:MINING

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xAttempt to stop water springs

MINERAL EXTRACTION-¿CUT-AND-FILL WITH SIMULTANEOUS RESTORATION?

IMAGE Date: 30th JUNE 2003

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT: 5th JULY 2003

2008

FAPACSA REPORTS THESE FACTS TO THE EUROPEAN COMISSION BUT WITH NO RESULT

FOR YEARS, THE LAGOON WAS USED AS A CLANDESTINE RUBBISH DUMP, WHICH INCREASED THE RISK OF GROUNDWATER POLLUTION

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JANUARY 2011

ALBERO DE LA BAHÍA TRIED TO LEGALISE THIS SITUATION BY WRITING OUTA PRE-PROJECT TO LOCATE A RUBBISH DUMP IN THE AREA

MARCH 2011 THE EUROPEAN COMISSION DID NOT ANSWEROUR QUESTION

WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF SPANISH AUTHORITIES?TO FILL THE LAGOON

TO BUILD A NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT

TODAY THE URBANIZATION IS PARALYSED

BUT THE AREA STILL LACKS OFICIAL PROTECTION

THANKS TO CITIZEN PRESSURE

1. Ombudsman2. Spanish Department for Environment3. Municipality of Algeciras4. Economy, Innovation and Science Andalusian Council5. Environment Andalusian Council6. Andalusian Water Agency

- 7. ENVIRONMENTAL PROSECUTION SERVICE

ALGECIRAS FILED AWAY

REPORTED

Oficial institutions pass the buck to one another.

Also, they are constantly changing names,

which definately confuses the citizens.

Europe Spain

2013 ALBERO DE LA BAHIA (DEVELOPER)

WANTS TO MODIFY THE RESTORATION PLAN IMPOSED BY

AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OF 2003, WHICH WAS NEVER CARRIED OUT AND WHICH EXPIRED IN 2010 ?????????????????

2013 THE EUROPEAN COMISSION HAS DRAWN THE CONCLUSION THAT THERE IS NO BREACH OF THE PROJECT

¿WHY, THEN, AREN’T WE GIVEN THE REQUESTED INFORMATION ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL

MONITORING PROGRAM? WE THINK IT IS BECAUSE

IT DOESN’T EXISTBECAUSE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMMENT WAS PASSED A POSTERIORI, WHEN THE EXTRACTION HAD ALREADY STARTED AND THE LAGOON HAD ALREADY APPEARED…

This is the policy…

Developer Citizens Environment

THERE ARE NO SAFETY MEASURES

THERE NEVER WAS SUCH A THING AS AN AIR QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM:

2013DUMPING

WAS NEVER CONTROLLED

HUNDREDS OF NATIVE TREES WERE

CUT DOWN AND

NOT EVEN ONE WAS PLANTED

“WATER IS LIFE”?

YES,BUT NOT IN THE

STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR

SINCE 1988

¡Be careful!Irresponsible people

working

THE EUROPEAN COMISSION OMITS OUR COMPLAINT ABOUT THE INFRACTION OF AARHUS CONVENTION, DIRECTIVE 2000/60/CE AND DIRECTIVE 2004/35/CE.

THE COMISSION ONLY MENTIONS DIRECTIVE 92/43/CEE, WHICH IS ALSO BEING VIOLATED AS THE MINING AREAS ARE ADJACENT TO NATURA 2000 SITES.

LAGOON

.THE STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR IS ONE OF THE

MOST IMPORTANT BIRD MIGRATION CORRIDORS IN THE WORLD. BIRDS, LIKE US, NEED WATER

-NOT CONCRETE - TO SURVIVE.

WE INVITE ALL EURODEPUTIES AND MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN COMISSION TO VISITE THE STRAIT OF

GIBRALTAR TO CHECK BY THEMSELVES THE PROBLEMS THAT ARE AFFECTING BOTH CITIZENS AND THE

ENVIRONMENT IN SUCH A GLOBAL WAY.

Water is a human right

SOS Coastal Wetlands in the area of the Strait of Gibraltar