Porto Torres, asbestos on the SP34 for two weeks: "Risk for health and environment"

A stretch of road blocked for two weeks due to the collapse of portions of asbestos from the roofs of old industrial warehouses , one of the main arteries leading to the industrial area of Porto Torres, and a restricted area in via Marco Polo, off limits for ten days due to the presence of asbestos on the roadway.

There would be all the conditions for an emergency intervention, for the immediate removal of asbestos from provincial road 34 and the parallel road, because that material that ended up on the asphalt puts at risk the health of citizens and those who go to that part of the industrial area every day for work. Environmentalists and owners of productive activities located in the area are on a war footing.

"The fragments of the slab currently present in that section are made of asbestos cement and must therefore be removed as quickly as possible because, due to the wind, they could be subject to crumbling and constitute a source of fibers dispersed into the environment," says Giuseppe Alesso, president of the association Tuteliamo il Golfo dell'Asinara. "It is not possible to block a road for weeks waiting for someone to decide to intervene," complain the entrepreneurs of the area. "This road is crucial for the transit of vehicles heading to the industrial area."

The order signed by Mayor Massimo Mulas, following the windstorm of December 20 and 23, requires Sarda Laterizi, owner of the imposing, old and abandoned industrial building, to secure the building with the obligation to immediately remove the fragments of sheet metal from the roofs and currently present in the SP 34, an intervention to be carried out in conjunction with the Province of Sassari as the body managing the road, in order to carry out the operations in conditions of maximum safety for both the operators responsible for the removal and for the users of the road.

"In the meantime, there remains a risk to health and the environment," underlines Giuseppe Alesso, "a problem that is at the basis of the laws protecting the health of individuals, which do not provide for timely interventions and rapid activation tools to remove such dangers."