Residents' protest: Over 74 hectares of agricultural land in the village of Kaniów in the Śląskie Voivodeship is to become converted into industrial areawhere in the future it may arise gravel pit. Of this, as many as 20 hectares are the water intake area for the commune. Residents who can submit until April 30 conclusions For changes in the spatial development plan, they protest against the changes proposed by the commune – reports “Fakt”.
Water problems: The inhabitants of Kaniów already have water problems, for which They blame the gravel pitwhich, although still works, its deposits are on the finish. 30 years ago they used groundwater, which was enough to filter and could be drunk. Today they complain that they have to drink surface water, i.e. chemically treated rainwater, and that it flows in their taps from time to time Yellow -brown liquid.
The opinion of the commune is not enough: One of the people already lived at the gravel pit and, as he says, means noise, dust and dust. “Machines work at night, you can't live,” he says. However, the head of the Bestwina commune Grzegorz Boboń claims that Final decisions have not yet been made. A spatial development plan is determined at the this stage. The head of the commune emphasizes that if the gravel deposits are documented, the Silesian Voivode may give permission to mining Even with a negative opinion of the commune.
The investor replies: The area intended for new gravel pits partly belongs to owner current mine. It is Leszek Kosmaty leading Budtor. Kosmaty claims that despite the fears of the inhabitants, the method of exploitation of the deposit It will improve water relationsbecause the end effect is to be uprising tankwhich will become a reserve intake of water for Bestwina, which is to be confirmed by control tests. Residents of the commune are not convinced and demand a study conducted by independent hydrologists and geologists
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Source: Fact