The Costa Brava landfill looks bad, it smells terrible and it’s located at the worst place possible. People living next to the landfill should have been evacuated prior to its opening and proper measures should have been taken to contain the smell, which is worse than you could ever imagine. Also, setting up a landfill next to an airport poses a potential hazard to aircraft operations as it attracts birds and collisions with birds at low altitudes are very dangerous.
Kalamenass flew over the Costa Brava dump site and shared an aerial view of this new environmental disaster. Based on what they said, the landfill is only 167 meters away from the airport while the distance required is 13 KM!
So instead of finding a viable and sustainable solution to the garbage crisis, the authorities have decided to set up a landfill next to the sea in order to pollute it further, make more people’s lives a living hell and pose a real threat to aircraft operations.
It’s good they highlighted this problem on TV. I did the research for MEA with regards to the hazard of the landfill near the airport 2 months ago and it was submitted to the DGCA as an official conplaint.
Several notes:
– officially speaking according to FAA AC amd UK CAP 722, there should be a seperationminimum distance of 10 km between closest point of landfill to closest point of airport.
– birds fly up and surround landfill 6000 ft around its zone
– no agricultural land should also exist within 10 km.
– a bird strike management system should be implemented at the aerodrome (government’s responsibility)
We’re the only airline that has a special procedure to check for bullet holes on planes. We get weekly 2-3 A/C with bullet holes or indents.