2024-01-14 14:25:42
Published14. January 2024, 3:25 p.m
Environmental pollution: Industrial waste is hidden beneath the luxury resort on Lake Brienz
A holiday complex with 155 apartments is being built in Oberried BE. But there are still remnants of a former fireworks factory on the site.
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The Florens Resort is being built on the former site of the Hamberger fireworks factory. (Photo from 2018)
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The resort is expected to welcome its first guests this year. (Photo from 2018)
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As part of a mega project, a holiday resort with 155 apartments is being built in Oberried on Lake Brienz.
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However, underneath there are still remains of industrial waste that come from a former fireworks factory.
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According to the canton, the contaminated sites pose no threat.
The Florens Lake Resort & Spa, a holiday resort costing 150 million francs, is currently being built in Oberried on Lake Brienz. But there is industrial waste underground, as the “SonntagsZeitung” reports. Waste was buried in the ground of the site and contaminated sites on the shore were dumped into Lake Brienz.
“Various waste products, including powder and military material, were buried in the area and in the lake and thrown into the lake,” citizens wrote in an anonymous letter to the community. Divers recovered waste from the lake and spotted barrels on the bottom.
According to the entry in the cantonal register of contaminated sites, heavy metals and so-called PAHs, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, lie dormant in the soil. Such waste from a former fireworks factory is buried at two locations in the resort, covering a total area of around 3,000 square meters.
“Mostly empty barrels”
“These are small areas that might not be released from the register of polluted locations due to residual pollution remaining on site,” explains the Bern cantonal office for water and waste to the “SonntagsZeitung”.
The authority also assumes “that the waste in the lake is mainly empty barrels”. A threat to the lake can therefore “most likely be practically ruled out”.
The construction company Steiner AG, which was commissioned to build the 18 apartment houses with a total of 155 holiday apartments, also shares the same opinion. She assures in a statement: “The developed area of the Florens Lake Resort was professionally cleared of contaminated sites.”
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