EPL appealed to the Halytskyi District Court of Lviv with a suit challenging actions of Lviv city council related to the operation of Hrybovychi landfill. However, representatives of Lviv City Council failed to attend two consecutive court hearings, in this way procrastinating consideration of the case.
Back in October 2016, EPL filed a lawsuit with the following claims: to recognize activities (namely operation of Hrybovychi landfill) of Lviv City Council and the executive committee to be illegal and to oblige the executive committee of LCC and the LCC itself to prohibit implementation (execution) of the complex projects of Hrybovychi landfill remediation and the working project “Technological map of storage of solid domestic waste as priority measures of stabilizing Lviv landfill”, in particular transportation and storage of waste and developing maps of waste storage.
It is worth mentioning that on 01.12.2016, Lviv City Council addressed Malekhiv village council asking to allocate a land lot for arranging maps of storing briquetted waste (13 storeys) in the same landfill thus ignoring the decision of the Lviv Circuit Administrative Court of 10.11.2016 (currently under review of the appellate court), which prohibited the Lviv communal enterprise “Zbyranka” to store solid domestic waste on Lviv landfill and its subsequent operation. Commissioned by Lviv City Council, “Hirhimprom Institute” Ltd called such waste storage to be stabilization of the landfill for purposes of its reclamation. However, earlier the director of “Hirhimprom Institute” Ltd Ivan Zozulia rightly stated in his article “Ways of solving the problem of Lviv landfill” that for Hryvovychi landfill remediation should be used local soils (not new waste): loess loam, limestone, sand and clay: http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/39697
More information about the situation with the landfill, official documents and conclusions can be found here:
