Environmentalists who have extensively documented the pollution caused by the construction of the Maya Train, now show photos of the spill of cement and hydrocarbons in the Nichupté Lagoon in the Hotel Zone of Cancun.
The diver and speleologist, Guillermo DChristy, documented with photos taken with drones the damage caused by the “concrete spill in the mangrove area due to the work of pouring piles of the Bridge that will cross the Nichupte Lagoon in the Hotel Zone of Cancun.”
Derrame de concreto en área de manglar por los trabajos de colado de pilas del Puente que cruzará la Laguna Nichupte en la ZH de Cancún.
— Guillermo DChristy (@gchristy65) May 7, 2024
Desprecio total al cuidado ambiental por las compañías y la autoridad.
Una vez más la ciudadanía haciendo la chamba.@SelvameMX @SelvaMayaSOS pic.twitter.com/uN1mb6yPvB
He adds that this demonstrates a “total disregard for environmental care by companies and authorities.”
The construction company ICA began, in July 2023, the construction of the bridge in the Nichupté Lagoon in the Cancun Hotel Zone, whose length is 8.8 kilometers, which will connect with Colosio Boulevard and Tulum, Kabah, and Bonampak Avenues.
This work has an approximate cost of 5,570 million pesos, later it rose to 7,056 million pesos.
Furthermore, it was initially going to be completed in April of this year and now it will be in the summer.
The environmental activist indicated that the cement spill caused the seagrasses and fauna that were in the area where it occurred to be buried.
And this is a failure to comply with the management program and the purposes of a protected natural area (ANP), intended for conservation.
It was last Sunday, May 5, when environmentalists detected through a drone flyover that there was a spill of contaminants: cement and hydrocarbons at various points during the construction of the bridge in the Nichupté Lagoon, in the Hotel Zone of Cancun.
“The sediment retention meshes are not working, the water and mangroves are being contaminated,” which will affect the flora and fauna located there.
The activists anticipated that they would file a complaint with the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (Profepa) for spilling cement and hydrocarbons at various points in the Nichupté lagoon due to the construction of the bridge of the same name. The cement spill is similar to the contamination in caves and cenotes located in Section 5 of the Tren Maya, which has also been documented by activists during the installation of piles for the railway overpass.
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