Practical case on environmental impact assessment of roads: bypass of Borriol, Castellón

Abstract

In all the Spanish administrations, not only the central but also the authonomical ones, the Environmental Impact Assessment process has some stages. In this article all this stages are described on the case of the new route of an existing road, the bypass of the C-238 road at Borriol, Castellón, whose owner is the Generalitat Valenciana. This is one of the most recent processes of Environmental Impact Assessment at this Authonomical Administration. First of all, the most important aspects of the Environmental Impact Study are shown; this Study is included, as an Anexe Document, in the Basic Project "Highway between Castellón and La Pobla Tornesa (C-238). South Borriol - North La Pobla Tornesa", November 1993. On July 1994, this Project passed the Public Information process. On October the 21^st, 1994, the Direcció General de Qualitat Ambiental of the Consellería de Medi Ambient of the Generalitat Valenciana edited the Environmental Impact Declaration about the Project. In this article, the almost total equality between the corrective measures it obliges to and the ones proposed in the Environmental Impact Study are exposed. Nowadays, the Constructive Project "Bypass of Borriol of the C-238 (Castellón)", has been approved by the authorities, and the works will start soon. This works include the impact corrective measures, which are explained as the conclusion of this work.