Genny Gamboa Guerrero, mayor of the municipality of California, Santander will have to answer before the Attorney General’s Office for allegedly having allowed illegal mining in their locality since 2020 and not having taken preventive action on water contamination with mercury.
The control entity opened a disciplinary investigation against the Santander president for their “alleged omissions in allowing mining practices contrary to the law and that have resulted in the contamination of water currents with which the aqueduct of the Metropolitan Area of Bucaramanga is fed”.
Pedro Rodríguez, Provincial Attorney of Bucaramanga, indicated that they seek to determine if the use of mercury in illegal mining would be reaching the water captured by the Metropolitan Aqueduct of Bucaramanga.
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“We have an input from the Attorney General for environmental matters that gives us specific shortcomings. It is a technical study that tells us that the water consumed in the metropolitan area could have a high mercury component,” he said.
In addition, the Attorney General’s Office warned that they are looking for possible faults of the official and if they find them, the citizens would face a very serious health problem, since illegal mining affects the municipalities of California, Matanza, Surata and, in general, to the territories that are part of the Metropolitan Area of Bucaramanga,
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