In an interview with El Mercurio de Valparaíso, Luis Álvarez – PUCV professor and member of the scientific committee that prepared the basis for the sanitation project for the Las Salinas site – and Esteban Undurraga – development manager of Las Salinas – referred to the safety and effectiveness of the bioremediation technique, as well as the importance of generating the best quality urban development in the area. . Luis Álvarez recalled that a first stage of remediation was already carried out -between 2009 and 2013- so the proposed bioremediation strategy “is much more harmless than the remediation carried out in the first stage. The hard part has already been done. Regarding the urban project to be built once the remediation is completed, Esteban Undurraga assured that “we have the opportunity to give life to a new centrality, with a broad mix of uses, that increases connectivity, brings people closer, provides quality public spaces, increases investment in the city… in other words, a neighborhood that contributes to making Viña a better place for all the neighbors”. Finally, he emphasized that although it is private land, the vocation of Las Salinas is public, so it is “a tool that contributes to the sustainable development of an entire city”.
