An area of about 3,000 square meters was seized by the military of the Operational Unit of the Environmental Police of the Port Authority – Coast Guard of Crotone, In the Gangemi district of the Municipality of Strongoli. During the continuous activities aimed at the prevention and contrast of the offenses in environmental matters and under the coordination of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Crotone led by Guarascio, the military identified a fenced area discovered, accessible through a driveway gate, within which there were numerous boats and boats and mechanical means suitable for their handling. Inside there was a shed used as a mechanical workshop of about 560 square meters, an additional shed used for storage and equipment deposit of about 610 square meters, an external area covered by a roof of around 280 square meters and the remaining external area, not paved, used for the stop of the boats and the related trolleys.
During the inspections it was ascertained that the activities carried out within the inspected commercial exercise were closely connected to the maintenance of boats and boats Removal or storage, painting, maintenance to marine engines, sale of products for boating and fishing as well as activities aimed at installing spare parts. From the checks performed, the military verified that The industrial waste water produced by the commercial activity were without a collection system and therefore they were delivered directly to the ground without suffering any purifying process. The soil, in fact, was proved without grids, drains and filtration and preventive purification systems of the waste.
The further documentary investigations revealed that the commercial activity was baked by authorization to unload industrial waste water, without the authorization to emissions into the atmosphere and without assessment of the acoustic impact caused by this shipbuilding activity. In consideration of the violations ascertained the whole nautical workshop was placed under seizure available to the judicial authority. The owner of the commercial activity was reported to the judicial authority for various hypotheses of environmental crime.