(Hai Pa) - Friday 8/11/24 the smell of fuel wafted in the Bat Galim neighborhood in Haifa. Residents of the neighborhood complain that for the past week the neighborhood "reeks of fuel."
The Association of Cities of the Haifa Bay Area for the Protection of the Environment gave Haifa the News Corporation:
The Bat Galim neighborhood, which suffers from various odor hazards, has been at the center of the union's activities for some time, and recently a monitoring station was even placed in the neighborhood, in order to allow as close monitoring as possible of the air quality.
Together with the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Municipality of Haifa and the other relevant parties, we will continue to work to promote solutions to the odor problem.
It is important to note that the appropriate and comprehensive response is compliance with the timetables set by the state regarding the removal of polluting petrochemical industries from the Haifa Bay area, a necessary step in the fight for air quality and the quality of life in the Bay area.
An end tube passes through k. Eliezer and not Bat Galim.
But the gas stations are another story.
There is a situation of leakage from one of the tanks that reaches the drainage line and exits in the drainage ditches.
It has happened before
It's not just that there are many gas stations on Haganah Road, this is the Katsaa fuel pipeline that goes right through Bat Galim (and God forbid an explosion there could lead to a bit of a disaster).
You must not play with the smells of the fuels. The sources can also be a leak of fuel lines from the old gas station in the defense way or even worse, sabotage or a leak in the pipeline.
There is nothing to be done in Bat Galim, a neighborhood full of hazards and this is not going to change, they will only add more electromagnetic electrification lines and it seems that in the future they will have to raise the entire Bat Galim promenade about 3 meters higher because of the flooding every winter