The Councillor for the Environment, Iñaki Prusilla, has announced that the City Council of Vitoria-Gasteiz will install a water treatment plant to clean up the run-off of lindane emissions from the Gardelegi landfill to the Zadorra River. The function of this treatment plant would be to collect the groundwater in order to pump this water to the surface of the earth and clean it there. They would then be redirected to the traditional water network.

Prusilla has announced the move by answering questions from Oscar Fernández, the councilor for the Win group. Fernández denounces that the solution proposed by the City Council is nothing more than a "patch". "It is clear that you have done nothing about this without taking responsibility, looking elsewhere."

On Monday it was revealed that the Basque Water Agency URA has released to the City Council a criminal report proposing a fine of 50,000 euros for the spills detected from the Crispiña sewage treatment plant to the Zadorra River.

All of the government’s inspections in Gardelegi so far have called for water-related improvements. The last one was held on February 26, in which the Government gave a period of 30 days to "submit documentation of the actions that have been implemented to correct the deviations or to correct them immediately".

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