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We're not stupid,\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003eBut many are concerned over the effects the toxic waste disposal may have on the environment and health. \u003cbr/\u003eDecades of toxic waste dumping by the camorra crime syndicate that dominates the Naples area poisoned wells, authorities have found in recent months, tainting the water that irrigates crops with high levels of lead, arsenic and the industrial solvent tetrachloride. \u003cbr/\u003eIn an interview with The Associated Press, the head of the Naples environmental police force, General Sergio Costa, rattled off a list of substances in higher than permissible levels contaminating 13 irrigation wells on farmlands: arsenic, cadmium, tin, beryllium and other metals; tetrachloride and toluene among other chemicals used as industrial solvents. \u003cbr/\u003eSpecific levels were not provided as tests were ongoing, but the amounts are reaching dangerous levels, according to Costa.  \u003cbr/\u003eOfficials estimate that waste seepage from one of the more notorious sites, a hill-like dump in the nearby farm town of Giugliano, a short drive away, will keep poisoning the water for half a century. \u003cbr/\u003eA top Camorra boss, Francesco Bidognetti, was convicted last month of poisoning the water table in the town of Gugliano with toxic waste and received a 20-year sentence.\u003cbr/\u003eIt was by far the stiffest punishment yet for waste dumping and a strong sign that the state is cracking down on the lucrative racket. \u003cbr/\u003eMuch of the waste the camorra has trafficked has come from factories, processing plants and hospitals, mainly trucked down from in Italy's industrial north to the mobsters' power base near Naples and Caserta. \u003cbr/\u003eSome of the waste was buried under a soccer field in Casal di Principe, the stronghold of the Casalesi crime clan that dominates the illicit business, along with a few other families. \u003cbr/\u003eNaples-based anti-Mafia Prosecutor Giovanni Conzo said in an interview that waste was also buried under a water-skiing pool in the town of Castel Volturno, near the sea. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The camorra (Campania-based international organised crime syndicate), the mafia (Sicily-based international organised crime syndicate) and the 'ndrangheta (Calabria-based international organised crime syndicate) will not end until there is connivance with politics and with the business community and as long as there are entrepreneurs ready to take money coming from the camorra ,\" Conzo said. \u003cbr/\u003eAccording to a nationwide environmentalist group, Legambiente, Camorra mobsters since 1991 have systematically dumped, burned or buried nearly 10 million tons of waste, almost all of it coming from factories that either don't seek to know where the waste ends up or are complicit in the crimes. \u003cbr/\u003eExhaustive analyses of soil samples by a geologist in a two-year study, whose results were made public this fall, found many of the cancer-causing or otherwise harmful substances exactly where the turncoat said Bidognetti had them dumped over several years. \u003cbr/\u003eOncologist Mario Fusco, heads the research looking into the cancer rates in the area involved in the toxic waste dumping. \u003cbr/\u003eFusco, a native of the Naples province, maintains that although the risk is real, there is no conclusive scientific evidence yet of a direct link between the toxic waste and the cancer rates in the region.\u003cbr/\u003eHowever, Fusco says, since the the toxic waste dumps and the fires were massive, but scattered through out the territory, the carcinogenic impact might be localised around hazardous sites.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The fact that in the area covered by the register and in all municipalities there is no evidence of a bigger risk then the national average, does not necessarily mean that we can exclude the existence of some peaks of oncological pathologies in several clusters, in micro-areas smaller then the municipalities, linked to very local problems,\" Fusco explained. \u003cbr/\u003eThe first results of this cluster survey will be released at the beginning of 2014.\u003cbr/\u003eGeological study, commissioned by Naples-based anti-Mafia prosecutors, of soil and aquifers contaminated by the dump found a laundry lists of substances similar to those discovered around the Caivano farms: Chromium, lead, nickel, sulfates, toluene and other substances, all in concentrations higher than, often far exceeding, permissible levels. \u003cbr/\u003eThe head of the Naples environmental police force said the vegetables irrigated by water from contaminated wells was destined for local markets, not supermarkets , whose strict quality standards, backed up by spot-checks, would virtually eliminate the possibility of any tainted produce from reaching tables beyond the camorra's backyard. \u003cbr/\u003eItaly's agriculture minister last month hastened to assure consumers that testing of the produce is continuing \"non-stop.\" \u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, Naples anti-mafia prosecutor Conzo speaks of another fear: The mob may be poised to cash in the massive cleanup, using its time-tested expertise at muscling in on public contracts. \u003cbr/\u003eCaivano, northern Naples province - 19 November 2013\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of vegetables field in an area within the so called \"Triangle of death,\" due to increasing cancer-related deaths; Mount Vesuvius in the background\u003cbr/\u003e2. Tilt up from medium of warning sign reading (Italian) \"State Forestry Corps: Seized area\" to the field\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up of broccoli\u003cbr/\u003e4. Medium of truck on highway bordering the fields\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Domenico Della Corte, local farmer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I eat those cauliflowers myself, I give them to my children, to my little nephews. Would you eat something poisoned? I don't think so, we are not stupid.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close up cauliflower\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of farmer, Della Corte, showing his well, which has not been seized and has not been polluted according to the environmental police\u003cbr/\u003e8. Zoom out of the well\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of field and Mount Vesuvius\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Afragola, Naples province - 22 May 2007\u003cbr/\u003e10. Medium of a mother with baby in a push chair walking by the pile of rubbish\u003cbr/\u003e11. Medium of a firefighter extinguishing waste container set on fire\u003cbr/\u003e12. Medium of firefighters extinguishing fire\u003cbr/\u003eGiugliano, Naples province - 19 November 2013\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close of layers of waste, soil and grass in illegal dump \"Resit\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Medium pan right from farm land to illegal dump, seized by anti-mafia prosecutors\u003cbr/\u003e15. Medium of piles of waste\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide pan left from farm land to illegal dump site\u003cbr/\u003eNaples, Campania region - 19 November 2013\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Michele Buonomo, President of Legambiente Campania (Naples region)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Approximately ten million tonnes of industrial waste - which needed approximately 450,000 trucks to be transported - have been dumped in the Campania region.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Caserta, Campania region - 23 March 2012\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of an old dump site overgrown with trees and bushes with toxic fumes rising from the ground\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid of toxic fumes at dawn\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close up of an LCD display of a thermometric camera showing heat coming from the toxic fumes\u003cbr/\u003eNaples, Campania region - 19 November 2013\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giovanni Conzo, anti-mafia chief prosecutor of Naples\u003cbr/\u003e\"The camorra (Campania-based international organised crime syndicate), the mafia (Sicily-based international organised crime syndicate) and the 'ndrangheta (Calabria-based international organised crime syndicate) will not end until there is connivance with politics and with the business community and as long as there are entrepreneurs ready to take money coming from the camorra and invest and launder them in the legal economy and as long as there are politicians ready to make agreements with the camorra mobsters and 'ndrangheta mobsters.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBrusciano, Naples province - 9 December 2013\u003cbr/\u003e22. Close up of the computer screen with the title of the report on the connection between cancer rates and toxic waste \u003cbr/\u003e23. Close up diagram showing compared national and local cancer trends   \u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Mario Fusco, director of the cancer register of Naples:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The fact that in the area covered by the register and in all municipalities there is no evidence of a bigger risk then the national average, does not necessarily mean that we can exclude the existence of some peaks of oncological pathologies in several clusters, in micro-areas smaller then the municipalities, linked to very local problems.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNaples - 17  November  2013\u003cbr/\u003e24. Various of Naples and Caserta province residents protesting against illegal toxic waste dumping \u003cbr/\u003e25. 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