Bogotá News: Operator of Doña Juana, fined $ 5.581 million



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The sanctions are the result of two administrative investigations carried out by the Superintendence of Home Public Services.

The Superintendence of Residential Public Services fined the Juana Waste Management Center (CGR) for 5,581 million pesos, at the end of two administrative investigations carried out against the service provider.

The control entity detailed that imposed a fine of 5,031 million pesos due to failures in the provision of the cleaning service on the final disposal activity, derived from non-compliance with various technical specifications provided in the standard.

Superintendent Natasha Avendaño explained: “These sanctions are the result of investigations carried out after completing the entire procedure administrative sanction that the law indicates and respecting due process. “

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The second sanction amounts to 550 million pesos, for not having an emergency and contingency plan adjusted to the norms, which put at risk the provision of the public cleaning service and the rights of the users.

Officials of the entity revealed several irregularities in the visits they made between August 2016 and September 2017, and stand out breaches in the daily coverage of waste, the collection and treatment of leachate and the control of insects, rodents and other vectors.

Likewise, it was evident restrictions on vehicle traffic, especially in the rainy season, and inadequate management in the final disposal of construction and demolition waste, among other failures.

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“In the superintendency we are committed to complying with the legal and technical regulations for the management of this sanitary landfill, the consequences on the environment and the guarantee of the rights of the users, in this case, represented by the communities surrounding the site ”, it is indicated.

Currently, the superintendency adopted an action plan for continuous monitoring of the emergency registered on April 28 by the displacement of waste.

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