The disputed material, which the private company "MM System" deposited on private and state property in the Nikšić settlement of Straševina and for which the residents of that settlement and Klicevo protested, but also blocked the Nikšić - Podgorica main road near the Budoš tunnel, consists of used grit and will moved to another location, it was confirmed by "News"
As "Vijesti" learns, the waste will be deposited under Trebjesa, near the place where a certain amount of material is still located.
At the request of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Directorate for Inspection Affairs (Department for Environmental Inspection) and the Nikšić Municipal Police, the Center for Ecotoxicological Testing (CETI) took samples of the deposited material on August 2 and determined that it was non-hazardous.
"According to our assumption, the deposited fine-grained material represents used grit. "Grit is an abrasive material that is used for sandblasting under high pressure in open and closed spaces, and the sandblasting process itself removes rust, scale, paint and other impurities from steel or other hard surfaces", he writes in the answer to "Vijesta" signed by Danijela Bekric, director of the sector for laboratory diagnostics and radiation protection.
The residents of Straševina and Kličeva demanded that the disputed material be removed from private properties and property belonging to the Railway Infrastructure of Montenegro, as well as that the relevant institutions dealing with environmental protection explain to them the difference between hazardous and non-hazardous waste, i.e. grit.
The Directorate for Inspection Affairs told "Vijesti" that on August 15, the director of "MM System" made a statement in the minutes of inspection supervision that at the request of a local resident who owns a property in Straševina, he filled the road in accordance with the donation agreement and that "the material used when the filling was done, it was created by processing non-hazardous material that was additionally mixed with fractions of stone aggregate and that it is now a construction material that is used for filling roads, making concrete, various concrete elements, asphalt, curbs".
"He stated that the waste they were processing was a non-hazardous material and that they had test reports prepared by CETI for that, and that they were processing the waste with the permission of the Environmental Protection Agency," they wrote in the response of the Directorate for Inspection Affairs.
Since the director of the company "MM System" did not submit a decision from the Environmental Protection Agency, which he should have in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Waste Management, which proves that the material no longer has the status of waste, the Management ordered by decision that the storage of waste categorized as non-hazardous , as well as other material mixed with that waste, which is currently located at that location, comply with the obtained permit for waste processing from the Environmental Protection Agency, that is, to move it from the current location and storage zone to a location approved by the permit for storage and processing waste, or to another location for which there is an appropriate permit from the Agency in accordance with the Law on Waste Management.
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"When removing waste from cadastral plots, remove this waste from the surrounding land as well, if it is present on the same land as a result of the activities of the legal entity 'MM System' doo Nikšić at this location. The deadline for the execution of the measure ordered by the decision is 15 days from the day of receipt of the decision", stated the Directorate for Inspection Affairs.
Locals claim that more than 150 trucks of waste were unloaded in the settlement of Straševina, on private and state land, and that none of them were aware of the deposited material.
"The Railway Infrastructure of Montenegro (ŽICG) has not given approval for the disposal of any kind of material on the property we manage - the section Nikšić-Ostrog, the place of Straševina. We found out about the unloading of material on the plot, which is located some forty meters from the track, from the railway guard, who noticed the deposited material, after which ŽICG checked the embankment and determined that a part is also on our property. We have informed the chief inspector for railway traffic about this case, who will carry out further procedures, i.e. act in accordance with our report", they replied to "Vijesti" from ŽICG.
"Vijesti" contacted the owner of the company "MM System" Milan Erbez who briefly said that it is a "non-dangerous material that is structurally constructional", that he has the necessary documentation for everything, as well as that he will answer the other questions of "Vijesti" in the coming days.
The Shipyard in Bijela did not answer the questions of "Vijesti".
The Police Administration replied that three people reported that dangerous material, similar to grit, was being deposited and stored on their properties located in Straševina, as well as on state-owned land, that it was from them, as well as from employees in the company that deposited the material, statements were taken that they went to the scene and made a report, as well as that the prosecutor on duty at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Nikšić was aware of the case, who ordered further measures and actions to be taken in order to determine all the circumstances of significance for the event in question, after which a statement on legal qualification will be made.
"The Directorate for Inspection Affairs issued a decision for this legal entity ordering it to move the waste from its current location to a location approved by permit for the storage and processing of waste or to another location for which there is an appropriate permit from the Environmental Protection Agency. After the expert opinion delivered by the Center for Ecotoxicological Testing, which stated that the material in question is non-hazardous, the acting prosecutor was informed and requested that the case files be submitted to him for evaluation and opinion, after which he will perform the final legal qualification. it is stated in the response of the Police Administration.
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