Investigating the reasons for the environmental catastrophe in Kamchatka, it was impossible to reject potential technogenic sources of pollution, as academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences and officials of environmental departments did, considers an independent ecologist Georgy Kavanosyan. He released an investigation in which he said that to poison the water in the fall on Kamchatka and cause the mass death of animals and the burns of the eyes in surfers could have a substance leaked from the Kozelian landfill.
In the study report, which conducted the Chemical Faculty of Moscow State University. Lomonosov commissioned by Kavanasyan, it was said that 2,4-dichlorophenol was discovered in the soil samples under the Kozelian polygon - a 3.4-d derivative of pesticide. This substance causes serious skin burns and eye damage, very toxic for aquatic organisms with long-term consequences. According to the ecologist, it is 2,4-dichlorophenol in high concentrations could get into the ocean, imperceptibly spreading along the bottom and lead to the mass death of living beings.
Pesticide leak was one of the first versions of experts. Chemicals repository in the area of the Kozelsky volcano was initially substantiated not as needed for long-term storage, director of Greenpeace programs Ivan Blokov: Impossible to poisoned substances soaring for a long time, simply closing the film that the tree root can break through. For a short insulation, everything was done true, but for 10 years it passed, he says.
Greenpeace is still before the catastrophe asked to pay attention to the Kozel polygon, where the leaks were fixed before.
The only enterprise in Russia, which is able to neutralize pesticides, is the Tomsk polygon, spoke by Vtimes former deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor Oleg Mitvol (he is one of the shareholders of the landfill). The last time pesticides from Kamchatka were exported there in 2011, after which Kamchatka prosecutor's office repeatedly demanded something to do with them.
Even in samples selected by state bodies, exceeding the maximum permissible concentrations of pollutants, resembles GreenPeace. In the River Nalychev and her tributaries, a six-fold excess on tetrachloromethane was recorded next to the Kozelian landfill, in the Avachin Gulf - on Phenol and arsenic.
The prosecutor's office of Kamchatka Territory replied Greenpeace that the region's Ministry of Systems took insufficient measures to "aimed at fulfilling the requirements of environmental legislation" against the Kozelian landfill. The Military Prosecutor's Office of the Pacific Fleet was connected to the problem of the landfill, as it is on the lands of the Radiginsky military landfill.
The authorities promise to eliminate the Kozel polygon. "It is on our land since the 70s, but, in fact, not taken into account, - Complaints the Governor of the Kamchatka Territory Vladimir Solodov in an interview with Izvestia. - He does not apply to any authority and may be a great threat. Although in this case there was no leakage from him, it was documented. "
In 2021, the landfill should include in the register of accumulated environmental harm objects and liquidate according to the National Project "Ecology" at the expense of the federal budget.