The citizens of Debelec have declared themselves categorically against the construction of a warehouse for poultry manure in the settlement. Their fears are that it will lead to daily air pollution in their city. At a city-wide meeting in the crowded hall of the community center, convened by the mayor Snezhana Parvanova, the people of Debel expressed their unanimous disapproval of the implementation of the project.
A few days ago, it became clear that an investment intention for the construction of a storage facility for the production, processing and storage of palletized poultry manure was submitted to the RISW and the Municipality of V. Tarnovo. The base will be located on a territory of 2.9 decares. The selected place does not fall within protected areas, and its distance is 1.39 km in a straight line west of the settlement. It is planned to process 30 tons of bird manure per day in the warehouse, which makes 900 tons per month.
The investor Kalina Shirokova came to the meeting and tried to defend her intentions to the people of Debel. “It will not be a factory, but an agricultural building in which an installation for drying fertilizer will be located. We currently have a site that is legal and we can collect manure from our farm. It’s never been used though, until now we’ve been trucking cake to Montana. We have special filters, and it’s just drying, I can’t afford to work in a toxic environment. In V. Tarnovo and the surrounding area, there is a big problem with smells because of fertilizing the fields, but the smell is not from us, but from the farmers who are fertilizing their fields,” she said.
However, her words were met sharply by those present with questions about why they don’t make their warehouse in Montana, and the people of Debel have to breathe all this. Alexander Vodenicharov, a representative of the consortium that produces such equipment, explained that these are two containers that are hermetically sealed. They have one entrance where the manure removed from the barn has to pass 500 m and it closes, goes to a drying chamber, the water evaporates and condenses, and the air then passes through filters. The dried mass is granulated and poured into hermetic bags and taken away,” stated Vodenicharov.
“It is not true that the whole process is sealed. It is full of chemicals – nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur… This technology has been stopped in many countries because there is a heat process in which the gases evaporate. Vaporize as much as you want, but at least 50 km from here. It doesn’t smell to you, because it smells like Phoenician signs to you,” replied engineer Nayden Rachev.
“Since the poultry farm has existed, the town of Debelets has smelled bad. And since this is the case even from her, is it reasonable to build a fertilizer depot… Don’t build this plant in our city, build it where there are no people. Not a single citizen from Debelec wants this landfill!”, said one of the attendees categorically.
Many of the people gave examples that such farms in the world are made only outside the populated areas. “Could this “such a successful investment” of yours be made, for example, in France within a kilometer of a populated place? Your factory has been operating for 10 years, until now it was profitable for you to drive a cake to Montana, and now it has become unprofitable for you,” responded a woman from Debelec. “I have lived in the US and England, the farms are 20 to 50 km outside the settlements so as not to harm people. Why is it done in the city? Don’t play with fat people!” warned another attendee.
People emphasized that it is only 1 km from the stadium, where all the children play, and the biggest park in Debelets, where in the summer everyone seeks salvation from the heat. Their criticisms were also that the investors came to the meeting with only bare talk, without presenting their intentions in detail. Their fear is that once the decision on the poultry manure landfill is passed, they will be legally deprived of the opportunity to seek their rights.
The mayor Snezhana Parvanova ended the city-wide meeting with a question: do you want this project to be built, to which she received a friendly answer “No!” She also announced the results of the petition made in recent days, in which 1,600 signatures were collected against the planned fertilizer processing warehouse . However, there were no representatives of RISW at the city-wide assembly. “I officially invited their experts, but they did not come. As the mayor, I fully support the position of the people, I will send the signature and the minutes of the meeting of the RIOSV, from now on their opinion will be forthcoming”, concluded Snezhana Parvanova.
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