Ocean pollution in Kamchatka: The liberals’ version about the army’s fault is not confirmed
The most likely cause of pollution of the Pacific Ocean in Kamchatka is still considered to be the Kozelsky landfill for the disposal of agricultural pesticides, located near the Nalycheva River, which flows into the ocean in the Khalaktyrsky beach area.
Liberal bloggers, who fanned the scandal around the “ecological catastrophe,” technically “confused” it with the Radyginsky military training ground, located nearby, and joyfully blamed the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“At the beginning, we were inclined to believe that it was perhaps the military, but then photographs from Roscosmos appeared, and it was clear that in the area of the Mutnushka River, which flows in the area of this Kozelsky training ground, the water has a characteristic yellow-green color , in fact, we literally saw the same color today on the shores of Halaktvri beach. A storm passed, it rained again, and again this yellow foam appeared,” says journalist Elena Vereshchaka.
The Kozelsky test site was created in 1979 by the regional enterprise Kamchatselkhozsnab. Until the end of 2005, the state company Kamchatgeology was monitoring it. From 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018 - the private company Nedra. Now it is ownerless.
This topic was raised on her Instagram by the head of Rosprirodnadzor, Svetlana Radionova.
“Such objects should not and cannot be ownerless. Now no one can answer whose object it is and why it is not in any register. This and similar objects must cease to be “invisible”. You can't work on consequences all the time. We need to change approaches,” Radionova wrote. ⠀
At the same time, during the inspection of the Kozelsky landfill, no traces of leakage of toxic substances were visually detected, no odors were felt, and there was no external damage.
The Governor of the Kamchatka Territory, Vladimir Solodov, told reporters about this.
“Yesterday an expanded group of regulatory authorities went there. We also looked at the Kozelsky landfill from the air, visually there are no signs of a spill of pesticides, of course, we will closely monitor this facility,” Solodov said.
Several years ago in Kamchatka the question of the danger of the Kozelsky test site was already raised. In total, 108 tons of pesticides and pesticides are buried there, including substances of the 1st hazard class: aldrin, hexachlorobenzene, organochlorine pesticides. In addition, locals claim that “at least 20 tons of arsenic” are buried at the landfill, which is “enough to poison the entire North Pacific Ocean.”
The final results of samples from the Kozelsky test site will be available in 2 weeks. In the meantime, Kamchatka divers are exploring bay after bay to find the northern border of the pollution (in general, a strange-colored spot is moving south towards the Kuril Islands). They claim to have found a large number of dead animals at the bottom of Avacha Bay.
At the same time, Vladivostok blogger Dmitry Kovzan, who arrived in Kamchatka, examined both the Khalaktyrsky beach and the bays - and did not find dead aquatic organisms. Local residents confessed to him that they had seen bald sea urchins and dead octopuses not with their own eyes, but on Instagram.
Incoming results of analysis of samples from Moscow laboratories generally do not show excesses; only one of them showed a 16-fold excess of phenol.
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