The Court found that pollution from refuse had adversely impacted the applicants’ personal well-being during a waste crisis in the region from 1994 to 2009 and that the situation had continued, as the Italian authorities to date have still not secured or cleaned up the landfill site.
It said judicial and administrative proceedings, spanning the years 2005 to 2020, found that the Lo Uttaro area had been a risk to public health, particularly regarding groundwater.
The concentration of a number of toxic substances in the groundwater had also led the judicial and administrative authorities, from 2013 to 2019, to repeatedly ban the use of groundwater and cultivation in the area, it said.
As of 2020, no work to secure and clean up the Lo Uttaro area has as yet been carried out and no clear timeframe has been set, it said in a ruling on a petition presented by 19 people who were born between 1941 and 1982 and live in Caserta and San Nicola La Strada in Campania.
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