The District must present within a maximum term of three months a contingency plan that will provide an alternative solution to the waste problem..

In use of its powers, the Regional Autonomous Corporation of La Guajira - Corpoguajira- imposed a preventive measure of suspension of activity to the District of Riohacha, aimed at prohibiting the continued disposal of waste from the municipalities of Dibulla and Manaure in the temporary cell of Riohacha.

The administrative act also orders the District to present, within a maximum of three months, a contingency plan with alternative definitive solutions for the final disposal of the waste..

During a follow-up and control visit by professionals from the corporation, it was determined that the District of Riohacha, Through its cleaning service operator and the solid waste disposal site, it has failed to comply with the obligations established in resolutions No. 1867 of 2016 and 1616 of 2018 every time it placed waste on the last layer of earth material of the “Alternative 1 and 2” of the Transient Cell, raising the authorized level.

During the inspection it was found, that there is no useful life in the cells at the city's waste disposal site and an environmental restoration process has not begun in the closed cells..

The preventive measure that is imposed is of immediate execution and is intended to prevent or avoid the continuation of an activity and situation that is threatening the environment., natural resources, the natural landscape and human health.

Corpoguajira urges the District of Riohacha to complement the action plan so that the improvement measures to be implemented are permanent during the time that the final disposal site operates to guarantee the minimization of impacts to the surrounding indigenous communities..