The requirements of the authorities have all been met and the Garching city council is also satisfied with the immission report presented by the recycling company “Die Umweltmeister”.
But the Lohhof-Süd alliance remains skeptical.
Garching
- The recycling plant, in which building rubble, wood, rubbish and scrap is processed, has been criticized for years.
The action alliance Lohhof-Süd complains about noise and stench, brought reports into play that the system is not being operated on the latest technical standard.
It also complained that emissions reports were missing.
Due to the major fire at the end of 2019, the Garching city council also requested a corresponding report on the condition of the system.
This has now been submitted by the recycling company.
Comprehensive measurements
As a result, an extensive measurement campaign with costs of around 250,000 euros was carried out between May 2019 and March 2021, the fine dust concentration as well as the composition and amount of dust precipitation was determined.
"All assessment and limit values are clearly undercut", confirms the project manager Rebecca Thiel of the commissioned testing institute Müller BBM.
The measurements were supplemented by grid odor inspections, which took place as part of 52 day and night inspections between May 2019 and March 2019.
Here, too, everything was positive, in the Lohhof district no system-typical odor nuisances from waste wood, green waste or commercial waste were found.
Important basis for future approval procedures
For environmental master managing director Joachim Schön this is an important basis for future reports and approval procedures, "which is indispensable for a future-oriented development of our recycling location." , the expansion as an office location as well as employee accommodation.
In addition, this expansion is to be accompanied by an already approved rail connection.
A possible biomass power plant is currently being examined.
Mayor Dietmar Gruchmann (SPD) is also satisfied with the report: "It is extensive and meaningful and was accepted by the city council."
Action alliance questions expert opinion
The action alliance, however, has significant objections and also presents its own odor logs, contrary to the statements of the BBM office: 18 surveys with a time in November and December 2019 refer to “large-scale stench from chemically contaminated waste wood”, “acrid wood chemical smell” and “strong silage smell in Lohof-Süd ”. "Didn't they notice any of these odor and stench incidents that were clearly emanating from the recycling plant?" Eckhard Kirchner. “From our point of view, that more than questions the report.” It has not stinked a single time since the fire. “That means that precisely the part of the hall, which for two decades had extremely limited our wellbeing, burned down in December. Keywords we scrap yard,Track systems and biomass cogeneration plants will certainly not let us rest. "