Survey of environmental conditions in Temploni finally begins
Temploni
20 Jul 2021
/ 12:09
CORFU. The 3-year study of the Temploni landfill and the surrounding area is being implemented as a political commitment of the Regional Authority and “the results are expected to ‘show the way forward’ for the current regional authority and those that follow and to the local authorities with regard to the management of the area”, said Mr. Ioannou at a press conference yesterday.
A team from the “Demokritos” National Centre for Scientific Research headed by the Research Manager and Head of the Laboratory for Mass Spectrometry and Dioxin Analysis Leontios Leontiadis will today visit the Temploni area in order to identify and record the sampling points for the conducting of air, water and soil quality measurements.
The research is being conducted as part of the implementation of the planning contract signed by the Ionian Islands Regional Administration and “Demokritos” for the complete environmental survey of Temploni and the surrounding area within a 5km radius.
The team will be accompanied by the Deputy Regional Governor for Energy, Environment and Spatial Planning, Spyros Ioannou, by the Ionian Region executives, as well as local bodies and organisations that have often expressed their concern about the situation at the landfill.
The three-year research programme “Research programme for the comprehensive research and monitoring of the quality of air, groundwater, livestock and olive products in the area surrounding Corfu Temploni landfill – Development of a sampling plan, conducting of specialised chemical analyses, use of computational tools for simulation of pollutant dispersion”, is being implemented as a political commitment of the Regional Authority and “the results are expected to ‘show the way forward’ for the current regional authority and those that follow and to the local authorities with regard to the management of the area”, said Mr. Ioannou at a press conference yesterday.
“The research will take a long time, it will be carried out in depth and it will need almost the full three years," said Mr. Ioannou. "We are doing what was absolutely essential as was often promised and it was finally up to a political authority to implement it as its commitment. This is what we did as a Regional Department right from the outset with the agreement of the Regional Governor, so that this programme could be approved and implemented. All departments will contribute to the project. It is a very important project as it is the first time that a survey has been conducted in Corfu in such depth."
A two-hour working meeting had been held earlier with “Demokritos” National Centre for Scientific Research executives, the Deputy Regional Governor for Energy, Environment and Spatial Planning and the managers of the Ionian Islands Region to discuss the action plan for this research and all the necessary preliminary work.
“The measurements for air quality will be done over two periods," said Mr. Leontiadis, "in order to have a seasonal variation and will concern the concentration in organic pollutants and heavy metals and then study the aquifer in the surface and groundwater, as it is known from environmental studies that environmental pollution and especially organic pollutants fall into the soil and from there they diffuse into the groundwater and through the soil they pass on to animals and accumulate in their fatty tissue.”
He added that there will be frequent project deliverables and reports showing the progress of the study, while, whenever necessary, immediate action will be taken.
The Ionian Islands Regional Governor Rodi Kratsa addressed the press conference and referred to the pathogenicities up to today, while stressing the necessity to implement the research results in the environmental situation in Temploni.
The research is being conducted as part of the implementation of the planning contract signed by the Ionian Islands Regional Administration and “Demokritos” for the complete environmental survey of Temploni and the surrounding area within a 5km radius.
The team will be accompanied by the Deputy Regional Governor for Energy, Environment and Spatial Planning, Spyros Ioannou, by the Ionian Region executives, as well as local bodies and organisations that have often expressed their concern about the situation at the landfill.
The three-year research programme “Research programme for the comprehensive research and monitoring of the quality of air, groundwater, livestock and olive products in the area surrounding Corfu Temploni landfill – Development of a sampling plan, conducting of specialised chemical analyses, use of computational tools for simulation of pollutant dispersion”, is being implemented as a political commitment of the Regional Authority and “the results are expected to ‘show the way forward’ for the current regional authority and those that follow and to the local authorities with regard to the management of the area”, said Mr. Ioannou at a press conference yesterday.
“The research will take a long time, it will be carried out in depth and it will need almost the full three years," said Mr. Ioannou. "We are doing what was absolutely essential as was often promised and it was finally up to a political authority to implement it as its commitment. This is what we did as a Regional Department right from the outset with the agreement of the Regional Governor, so that this programme could be approved and implemented. All departments will contribute to the project. It is a very important project as it is the first time that a survey has been conducted in Corfu in such depth."
A two-hour working meeting had been held earlier with “Demokritos” National Centre for Scientific Research executives, the Deputy Regional Governor for Energy, Environment and Spatial Planning and the managers of the Ionian Islands Region to discuss the action plan for this research and all the necessary preliminary work.
“The measurements for air quality will be done over two periods," said Mr. Leontiadis, "in order to have a seasonal variation and will concern the concentration in organic pollutants and heavy metals and then study the aquifer in the surface and groundwater, as it is known from environmental studies that environmental pollution and especially organic pollutants fall into the soil and from there they diffuse into the groundwater and through the soil they pass on to animals and accumulate in their fatty tissue.”
He added that there will be frequent project deliverables and reports showing the progress of the study, while, whenever necessary, immediate action will be taken.
The Ionian Islands Regional Governor Rodi Kratsa addressed the press conference and referred to the pathogenicities up to today, while stressing the necessity to implement the research results in the environmental situation in Temploni.
