The construction of the new Morrompulli landfill It is 22% completeas confirmed by the Regional Government of Los Ríos.
The organization recognized that the project has a “High complexity”so they avoided specifying when the space that will store garbage from the entire region would be launched.
A possible environmental crisis. That is the main fear of the residents of the sector given the uncertainty surrounding the imminent closure of the Morrompulli landfill, only space that receives waste from the entire area.
The above, since from 2025 all municipalities, with the exception of Valdivia, will stop sending their household waste to that placegenerating a blanket of doubts regarding what will happen to the garbage.
As a possible solution to this problem, the sanitary landfill is being built to be installed in the same town of Morrompulli, a project that contemplates a space that meets the sanitary and environmental conditions to group waste from the entire region.
The regional administrator, Paz De La Maza, recognized that it is an initiative with “high complexity,” specifying that the works are 22% complete.
Earlier this year, the mayor of Valdivia, Carla Amtmann, The launch of the landfill was projected for 2025.
But the Regional Governor, Luis Cuvertino, questioned this deadline by indicating that the project It would not be ready before the closure of the Morrompulli landfillHe even stated that it would only be operational in 2026.
In this regard, De La Maza avoided committing that the landfill will begin its operation in 2025, indicating that they are doing “all efforts” to coordinate actions to meet previously stipulated deadlines.
Meanwhile, this project continues to be executed, with funding from the Regional Government and the Municipality of Valdivia as a technical unit, an initiative for which resources are being made available that, after the various budget modifications, It is expected to reach 15 billion pesos.
