A serious asbestos hazard near the residents' houses on Ninety-Three Street in Haifa The residents have been complaining for years and the municipality does not take care.
For years, residents living on Ninety-third Street in the city of Haifa have been contacting the municipality and asking to evacuate and remove the crumbling asbestos in an abandoned house on the street. Because it is known that asbestos is definitely carcinogenic, especially when it is in the disintegration stages.
Zechariah Job, told Lahi Fe:
We are helpless and do not know who else to turn to. This is a private and abandoned property. And the condition of the asbestos is getting worse because it is broken and crumbling. For years they have been contacting the municipality and warning about the danger, but have not received a response.
Hai Pa System contacted the Haifa Municipality and the Ministry of Environmental Protection in order to understand who is responsible for the evacuation and removal of asbestos when it comes to private and abandoned property. The Ministry of Environmental Protection explained that in such a case the responsibility lies with the local authority and it must take care of this hazard.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection gave Lahi Pa in response:
The Ministry of Environmental Protection tried to locate the owner of the property (who apparently does not live in the country), and later, the ministry contacted the local authority, alerted them to the hazard and transferred it to their care. When it is not possible to locate the owner of the property and require him to take care of the asbestos hazard, the local authority is the one responsible for removing the hazard. To the extent that the municipality does not act to remove the hazard, the ministry will require the local authority to act in accordance with its authority.
The Haifa Municipality responded:
This is a private property that the municipality is prohibited from operating on. The owner of the property has an obligation to deal with the removal of asbestos hazards if any exist. It should be emphasized that the dismantling of asbestos can only be carried out by a contractor licensed for the subject according to the guidelines and permit of the Ministry of Environmental Protection. As for the claim that it is a dangerous building, the matter has been transferred to the inspection of a dangerous buildings engineer who will act as necessary in accordance with the findings of the inspection and the provisions of the by-law for dangerous buildings.
Expansion on asbestos from the Ministry of Environmental Protection:
Environmental hazards at the local level are handled by the local authority and not by the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The local authority has various powers regarding the prevention of environmental hazards and their removal, including asbestos hazards and all by virtue of the powers granted to it by law. The Law for the Prevention of Asbestos Hazards and Harmful Dust,
These powers and the deployment of the authority's inspectors at the local level provide the local authority with the appropriate tools to deal with environmental hazards that concern the daily lives of its residents. As a general rule, the responsibility for removing asbestos hazards rests with the property owner, when it is a private property, and when it is a hazard that is in the public domain, the responsibility for removal rests with the local authority.
Asbestos effects on health:
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified asbestos in all its forms as a probable human carcinogen causing lung tissue cancer and mesothelioma. These diseases appear several years after exposure and are usually fatal. Asbestos has also been linked to cancers of the pharynx and ovaries.
Most of the morbidity related to asbestos is the result of occupational exposure of workers who worked in asbestos factories and mines or construction workers sawing asbestos-cement over the years. It is also known about cases of morbidity from diseases related to environmental exposure to asbestos, such as residents who lived near asbestos factories, people who were exposed to asbestos-brittle in their place of residence and family members of asbestos workers.
And what about the removal of asbestos in our neighborhood on 2rd Street number XNUMX that we live and breathe it every day..
Please put pressure on the municipality and the Ministry of Environment to clear it.
A classic case for a lawsuit.
But the municipal property tax collects for the tin municipal building
Did you choose Kalish and Michi Alfar? Hahaha eat her. I told you that you will still miss Yona Yahav.
Why should Klish be blamed for everything? Although the current municipality must take care of this dangerous hazard. But this is a hazard that has existed since before Klish was elected and the problem was not addressed!!!!