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Peru: Water company to pay neighbors for dumping sewage near homes

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Israel J. Ruiz

After Sedapal water company announced that raw sewage from 24 of Lima's districts would be dumped in Callao's ocean, neighbors have not stopped protesting the decision, which has also been supported by the country's housing ministry.

The state-run service announced that the wastewater would be dumped in a part of the Pacific Ocean that is in front of several neighborhoods in Callao.

It was reported that this would be done until the construction of a treatment plant was complete in 2010.

In an effort to calm neighbors down, Sedapal announced Monday that it would give approximately 50 families in the area 1,000 soles each every month until 2010 for the hassle of having untreated sewage dumped near their homes.

Furthermore, the company offered to provide free water to another 200 families.

In representation of the citizens living in the area, Pedro Lopez, the mayor of the district where the wastewater is to be dumped, has emphatically stated that a price cannot be put on his people's health, assuring that they rejected Sedapal's offer.

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# Anonymous George says :
15 April, 2008 [ 13:03 ]

How much am  I  to be paid for not being able to eat ceviche for two years? What, tell me, will be the point of me living in Peru? What am I supposed to do, go to Chile and eat their crap? F*** that!

# Punta Sal says :
15 April, 2008 [ 13:32 ]

Hey George, what do you think the fish have been consuming all of this time? I mean sure they eat one another, big fish, little fish,  but all of them as a whole all trek towards the coast of Peru for some of the really nutritional stuff. The mouths are really wide open at the end of the above pictured pipe line. If there was ever an area that needed to be addressed, this is it. Always remember the pic above folks when you go out to places like my name sake. Punta Sal. I'm not slamming Punta Sal, but like every other resturant, they have to get their fish products from some where correcto? Or do they import from else where? I think not.

# Anonymous George says :
15 April, 2008 [ 17:35 ]

What me think? Me no know. Too much mercury in my brains to think much good.

# Hooked On Ebonics says :
15 April, 2008 [ 18:27 ]

Jus axe mees, I knows what you bees talken about George. I be liken dem fishes four a very long times! I be haven dem sweet poetaytoe, murkery fish eaten blues tooo baby!

# CapitanDan says :
15 April, 2008 [ 18:57 ]

Hmm, 1000 Soles for 2 years and free water ,Wow thank you Soooo much. After dumping for two years this area will be starved of oxygen from the decaying waste .All animal life will either be dead or have moved south to Chile. Realistically speaking these people will never in there life times be able to enter this Toxic Cauldron. Also what about the poor people that live north of the dumping point. The fishermen that have to fish close to shore will have to be dependent on the new species for survival , The Garcia Chub.But the government is not worried about depleting this species ,because it spawns every 16 hours. Also, will the Water Company furnish free Hepatitis shots and Leptospirosis shots for the people that live within 10 miles upstream. People wake up, remember ,You don't S___T where You Eat.

# Pay Me Too says :
15 April, 2008 [ 19:10 ]

As a matter of fact, you don't have to pay me anything! Use the money as a down payment and build a sewage treatment plant instead! Of course the locals will probably like the idea of soles in the hands instead of the enviro/healthy alternative. Who living next to this filth will step up to the plate I wonder? Sad But True.

# santa rosa de lima says :
16 April, 2008 [ 07:26 ]

Well Boys n Girls,
No one wants to listen to me, 10 million people forgot all about the Patron Saint of the Americas.
Forget About Lima, it goes to the bottem of the Ocean soon.  That will really make Civiche taste bad.
Who cares if there is a little sewarge in the ocean now, the whole city will be there soon.  Better spend you money while you still can and buy a home in the mountians.
Santa Rosa

# El Gourdo says :
16 April, 2008 [ 07:43 ]

SEWAGE DUMPING  IS FUN!!!!

# 57643 says :
16 April, 2008 [ 14:45 ]

SO  BACKWARD! so currupt! so bloody awfull that they are paying people in order to sweet talk their way out of the sewage problem.
EVEN MORE REASON TO AVOID GOING TO PERU NOW. HOW SAD.
PERU_ YOU NEED TO GET RID OF YOUR MAYOR. because he does not care about you and your childrens future, He shows this by allowing companys like this to kill off your enviroment. the TRUTH is ..HE is probabley getting a secret  stash of money himself to help keep things 'sweet'.
This is NO JOKING MATTER. i cant see any reason to laugh about the matter.

# Mariposa says :
16 April, 2008 [ 18:18 ]

Not to sound ignorant, but where was the sewage from the 24 districts going before this recent development?  They obviously had to put it somewhere...

# Anonymous George says :
16 April, 2008 [ 18:23 ]

Mariposa, see the comment about "miz brainz bez hurting".

Ever eaten Peruvian Lenguado? Didn't notice that strange taste?

# Splaktar says :
17 May, 2008 [ 11:18 ]

Glad to hear that a sewage treatment plant is actually being built.  But they really need to find another way to treat their sewage until then.  Peru's oceans are incredibly important to all of the coastal cities and dumping raw waste in them in a horrible decision. 

I imagine a bunch of execs in Sedepal are saving the company tons of money by dumping their waste on everyone else. Then they can then steal all the money saved so that they can buy yachts to sail the brown seas.