30 December 2009, 23:30
In Sochi, river brings poisonous substances into the sea
On December 29, early in the morning, Sochinka River brought used machine oil into the sea. In Mzymta River, there is a threat of washout of the right-bank workers' temporary container settlements, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by an expert who preferred to remain anonymous that the increased water level provoked discharge of used oil and fuel into the river from some enterprise having contact with Sochinka. It is rather difficult to detect the offender, as there are lots of enterprises along the banks, starting from "Teploenergo" with its fuel tanks and ending with concrete articles factory, commodity yard, repair shops, garages, meat-packing and bread-baking combines, which communicate with the Khludov Stream, running into the river.
During the accident, Roman Moldovanov, head of the local federal service of "Rosprirodnadzor", was away from Sochi. He told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he was in Krasnodar and promised to take measures, send a team and report the results. However, no team ever came to the area of Sochinka River.
The correspondent's call to the person on duty at the "Sochiteploenergo", from where the fuel leakage could originate, gave no results, as the "Teploenergo" officials categorically rejected any possibility of the leakage.
Vadim Kozyrev, Sochi representative of the Krasnodar Territorial Department on Natural Resources, said that "Sochi rivers are beyond his competence; and Sochi has nothing in general under the care of the Territorial Department, since the city is a resort of federal, not regional, subordination."
By estimates of the experts who work in the vicinity of the Primorskaya Hotel trying to eliminate the damage caused by the accident with the broken dry-cargo ship, the damage from discharge of harmful substances on the river is incomparable with the damage from the ship and "is thousands times greater."
Author: Svetlana Kravchenko Source: CK correspondent
