Calpe town council is planning to seal the old municipal landfill site in the town. This is intended to solve the historical environmental problem of waste disposal that has existed at this site since the closure of the facilities in the 1990s. The landfill, located in the Mascarat Gorge, was closed at the time without the appropriate waste treatment being carried out.
Among the various options for solving the problem, the city council decided in favour of sealing the landfill, i.e. sealing the surface of the site to prevent leachate from entering the ravine and the groundwater. In this way, other options were ruled out, such as sending the waste to the Campello treatment plant due to the high environmental cost of transporting it, as thousands of tonnes of waste accumulate in these facilities.
The City Council has invited tenders for the preparation of the technical project, which will determine the depth of the existing accumulation and the measures to be taken to seal the surface of this land.
‘We started to deal with this problem in the last legislature and we have been able to organise the tender for the development of the project to seal this landfill, the best solution we have for this environmental problem’, said the Councillor for Municipal Solid Waste, Juan Manuel del Pino.
The tender for the development of the project, which has a basic budget of 60,000 euros and an estimated execution period of six months, is currently in the phase of evaluating the bids submitted.