A Rome judge on Friday ordered a
section of the city's Lungotevere road along the Tiber River
cordoned off because a toxic liquid has been detected there.
The liquid, called leachate, contains environmentally
harmful substances because it has drained from landfills or
industrial waste.
AMA trash company for years parked its trash compactors
along Lungotevere Arnaldo da Brescia, a section of the river
road lying near the central Piazza del Popolo square, where they
operated 19 hours a day.
The court-ordered measure comes after local residents
reported the AMA trucks for generating what their lawyer called
"noxious liquids" and for being too noisy.
Rome prosecutors opened an investigation last July as a
result of the citizen complaint.
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