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According to a tutela presented by various authorities, seven municipalities of Boyacá, which are supplied with water from Lake of Tota, must suspend the supply of this service, as they warn of the presence of lead in this water source.
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After an investigation, carried out by the Fourth Sectional Prosecutor’s Office of Tunja, it was determined “the finding of lead parameters that exceed 95 times the tolerance limits according to Resolution 3382 of 2015 for surface waters, putting human health at risk for toxicity factors”, according to the expert report, presented by the last November 4.
Due to the seriousness of the finding, the Attorney 32 Judicial I Agrarian and Environmental of Boyacá, Alicia Lopez Alfonso, and the delegate attorney for Environmental and Agrarian Affairs, Diego Trujillo Marín, presented a guardianship to protect the fundamental rights to life, health, a healthy environment and drinking water of the inhabitants of Sogamoso, Aquitania, Tota, Cuítiva, Firavitoba, Iza and Nobsa.
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In this guardianship, it requires suspending the water supply until the origin of this pollutant is established, a heavy metal that, “in its presence for prolonged periods generates irreversible damage to the nervous, renal, hematological system, cardiovascular dysfunction and hypoxia and at the level neurological encephalopathies are generated, among others, ”the guardianship reads.
“We do not order the suspension of a vital resource, which must be continuous and permanent, but, together with the Prosecutor’s Office, investigations have been initiated to establish the source of this contamination and stop it immediately so that they do not continue to attack life of the ecosystem and the inhabitants of Boyacá “, declared the delegate attorney for Environmental and Agrarian Affairs, Diego Trujillo Marín.(Recommended: New species of primate discovered in Burma)
What does Corpoboyacá respond?
Before the guardianship for the presence of lead in ethe Lake of Tota, the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Boyacá (Corpoboyacá), It says that it respects the procedures of the supervisory body and in that sense it will provide all the necessary information.
The entity assured that although quality monitoring of the water resource of the Lake Tota basin is carried out, due to competences Corpoboyacá does not measure the presence of lead.
By last, the director of Corpoboyacá, Herman Amaya, called a working table for November 18, with a visit to the area, to: the Ministry of the Environment; the Attorney General of the nation, the Secretary of Health of Boyacá, Jairo Santoyo; the mayors of the municipalities of Sogamoso, Aquitania, Tota, Cuítiva, Firavitoba, Iza, Nobsa; likewise, to the departmental Public Services Company; and to Coservicios SAESP
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