Colony Park is "the first development of permanent housing in a real island Argentine Delta." Such is the seductive argument that is presented on the Internet a real estate megaemprendimeinto offers its customers "desurbanizar" their lives in an exclusive island of San Isidro. But all is not idyllic natural paradise privatized, since, according to a criminal complaint with the construction of Colony Park "would be altering the use of the river and the ecological functions of the Parana River delta ecosystem," causing "damage Havoc "the entire ecosystem and the islanders.
The island where the company began to build, without the necessary environmental impact study, is bounded by the Logan River and Canal Link and covers about 300 hectares compared to the Municipality of San Isidro, "only 1000 meters traditional neighborhoods, and thus water, Avenida del Libertador ", as the company advertises Colony Park SA.
According to the prosecutor's request Molina, since he began work, two dredging machines excavated the river bed for 24 hours a day and this material was used to raise the terrain of the island from 80 centimeters to more naturally have 4 m, so we can build roads and ponds inside. These changes have altered the ecosystem of the area, which lies in a valley draining of wetlands, the site of reserve and water purification and works as a buffer against flooding.
The criminal complaint resulted in judicial intervention was filed in June 2008 by lawyer Enrique Ferreccio, representing several families in the area and went to the Federal Court No. 1 of San Isidro, by Sandra Arroyo Salgado. They claim that the changes in the environment that generated this cause mega-enterprises (and already caused) an irreparable impact on the ecosystem of the delta and considered "Incompatible with the concept of sustainable development."
addition to the immediate environmental damage generated by the dredging of the river, close to streams and the fact of destroying the vegetation, a number of problems that arise when you finish building the three stages of the project (about 980 lots).
According to the complaint, urbanization is expected to live about 4800 people, which exceeds the total number of people currently living on the islands in the delta, home to 4000 people in a territory of 20 000 hectares. To this are added the 1000 vehicles that circulate between the island and the mainland through a ferry. Ferreccio
the report warns "the disproportion in population density between Colony Park and the sector islands, with the aggravating circumstance in the real estate venture will carry automotive people, unlike the Islanders," and explains that "the introduction of vehicles in a small area, population density saturated, the generation of liquid effluents and solid waste, generates a functional change to the low delta, disrupting their environmental functions. "
The damage is not only environmental. For two years, when he began the weeding and the raising of the island, also started a chase to the locals, reeds and fishermen residents over 20 years, whose shacks were removed from places ranging from streams Pacú and Anguilla.
"began in August 2008," recalled one island and told: "I had gone fishing and when I returned to the ranch, I found that there was nothing, the company had thrown everything he had begun to dismantle and make the banks." Another said: "Colony Park Creek Eel completely destroyed and left without work to all who lived on the island."
to the environmental effects are added the social and cultural impact it has on the immediate local population, who saw the way life and homes destroyed by bulldozers and chainsaws. To survive, about 18 islanders were grouped in the Cooperative Hope Island (see separate article), which allowed them to continue with the harvesting of reeds and made products: curtains, bread baskets, baskets. Were more than two years that made clearings Colony Park SA, moved land, eviction people, dredged rivers and streams without, since then, a minimum environmental impact study. <
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