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Anonymously written deed about the sins of this house has arrived 15 minutes after O.Vėbrienė distributed a public “letter of assistance” to the country’s top leaders, stating that he was under pressure for his principled activities.
Accused of environmental pollution
The letter states that “the conflict that broke out between the Ministry of the Environment and its subordinate Department of Environmental Protection has exposed a series of wounds in the environmental system.”
There is also talk of the director’s place of residence in the Vilnius district, that the block of individual houses on the Old Ukmergė road is far from centralized drinking water and sewage networks, so local networks are used.
It is mentioned that the neighborhood was built without a sewage treatment plant, and an underground sewage tank was designed and built, in which the sewage from all the houses was collected.
Because this block of cabins is home to “extraordinary people,” they may have built a sewage treatment plant after a while.
“The locals had to hire sewers and call them almost every day to at least partially clean the quick-fill tank. But why do they have to hire someone and pay significant sums for sewage removal when it is possible to dig a trench and discharge the raw sewage directly into nature? Personal “pockets” are probably closer to the heart than just hatched birds poisoned by human feces, unable to escape their nests. Who cares?
Because this block of cabins is home to “extraordinary people,” they may have built a sewage treatment plant after a while. It turns out that the use of such a treatment plant requires a pollution permit issued by the Environmental Protection Agency. (…) Due to environmental contamination when 5 cubic meters are discharged into the environment. per day and more wastewater treated, pollution taxes must also be paid to the state, ”the anonymous letter says.
He even estimates that the fine for illegal dumping of sewage to a similar settlement could reach more than 7,000. by year.
Valdas Kopūstas / 15min photo / “Vilnius Water” sewage treatment plant
“Extraordinary people” – Director of AAD
And those “extraordinary people”, according to the author of the letter, are the director of the AAD, O.Vėbrienė, and it is “difficult to imagine” that he does not know how his wastewater and that of his neighbors should be treated: “Can someone to be exempted from such an obligation wearing environmental uniform? “
It is true that no proof is provided that O.Vėbrienė was aware of and tolerated such activities in the community where he lives.
AAD 15 minutes confirmed that according to the data available to the Vilnius District Environmental Protection Inspectorate (SAI), in 2019. June 5 A report was received that sewage was entering the drainage ditch in this quarter.
The inspection revealed that the domestic wastewater storage tank was overfilled and raw domestic wastewater entered the environment through the top cap.
“Vilnius district SAI officials conducted an unscheduled inspection and it was established that in the territory of Avižienių sen., Vilnius District. sav., in which there is a residential neighborhood, from which the domestic sewerage of the houses was connected to a domestic sewage storage tank at the end of the street by engineering networks. During the inspection, it was established that the domestic wastewater storage tank was overfilled and raw domestic wastewater entered the environment, the drainage ditch, through the top cover.
Neighborhood residents immediately stopped the contamination and cleaned up the area. An ANK protocol was developed for the person responsible for said violation due to inadequate wastewater treatment. The Vilnius District SAI has not registered any further complaints about possible environmental violations at the aforementioned address, ”says the comment sent to the AAD.
Husband’s property before marriage
The director of AAD O.Vėbrienė herself 15 minutes She claimed that her husband actually owned a two-apartment house in the neighborhood, which had been bought before the marriage, so the husband took care of the construction, installation, etc. issues.
“For this reason, I had no reason to delve into the issues you mentioned,” the director said when asked about possible violations of wastewater treatment.
He said that he knew so much that the operation of the facilities was in charge of a company with which a neighbors contract had been concluded:
“Of course, I will draw the attention of the community and its leaders to whether all the paperwork has actually been completed. As director of the AAD, I never thought of paying special attention to the companies that serve my family (settlement), I trust my fellow inspectors who work in the territorial units and I have no doubt that they are doing their job, that they have to do. “
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Olga Vėbrienė
Asta Lopetienė, founder and director of the association of individual apartment owners this quarter, did not confirm that the quarter did not initially have a wastewater treatment plant for more than a year.
It was unable to specify exactly how much treated effluent from the treatment plant is discharged to the environment per day and if that amount is when a pollution permit is already required, as the treatment plant was installed and operated by a private company with extensive experience. in this field. countryside.
After consulting with the neighbors, who, according to A. Lopetienė, were in charge of the installation and maintenance of the wastewater treatment plant, the community representative also clarified that the community will take over the pollution permit in the future near.
No pollution permit was issued
Lina Gaidžiūnaitė, a public relations representative for the Environmental Protection Agency, reported that based on data available to the EPA, no pollution permits have been issued for management this quarter.
The amount of wastewater discharged specified in the aforementioned criteria for obtaining a pollution permit is likely not to be exceeded, said the EPA representative.
“It should be noted that according to the rules for the issuance, modification and revocation of pollution permits, the operation of the facility requires a special part of the pollution permit for the treatment and discharge of wastewater, in case of discharge (planned) in the natural environment (surface water bodies, filtration facilities, fertilization fields, etc.)) 5 cubic meters per day and more for domestic, industrial use, etc. (excluding surface water) (calculated by dividing the amount of wastewater discharged or expected to discharge per year by the number of discharges). It is likely that the amount of wastewater discharged specified in the criteria mentioned above to obtain a pollution permit will not be exceeded, “said the agency representative.
Residents should apply to the Department of Environmental Protection for pollution taxes.
The AAD reported that in 2020, the Department’s Notification Service received 975 notifications from the population about possible wastewater contamination.
In 2019, 75 cases of illegal wastewater discharge were identified.
“In the case of individual houses, the discharge of untreated sewage is prohibited and a permit is required when 5 cubic meters and more of treated sewage are discharged into the environment per day,” says the department.
Photo by Lukas Balandis / 15min / Vilnius City Wastewater Treatment Plant
2019 the total number of irregularities related to wastewater was 181 and 867 inspections were carried out.
The AAD could not say if there were violations and what occurred in the new residential neighborhoods; such information is not collected separately.
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