The service had previously found that the company had been storing more waste at one time for a longer time than the amount permitted. The VVD has imposed fines for the non-compliance and ordered the waste to be removed.
According to the company, more than 88 tonnes of various types of waste were burnt in a fire accident on its premises in late June.
The company has been ordered to carry out a geo-ecological survey of the site to ascertain whether any irreversible environmental contamination (ground and groundwater) has been caused at the site and in the adjacent areas.
"In this situation, the fact that inadequate and large quantities of hazardous waste were stored in the area at the same time resulted in an emergency. No immediate environmental risks from the fire have been identified, the existence of residual contamination is still to be assessed and the company will be involved in the aftermath," informed Kalvis Avotiņš.
The company has already been fined by the VVD for the non-compliances found, as a result of which hazardous waste removal had already started in the area before the accident.
However, following an assessment of the information available to the VVD, the results of the inspection of the burning incident at the end of June showed that there were still several classes of waste stored on the site for a long period of time, as well as classes of waste that exceeded the quantities that could be stored at any one time.
