3.3 thousand tons of sand contaminated with fuel oil removed from beaches in Krasnodar Region

More than 3.3 thousand tons of sand contaminated with fuel oil have been removed from the beaches in Krasnodar region after a partial fuel spill due to the crash of two tankers in the Kerch Strait. This was reported by the Russian Emergencies Ministry on December 20.

"In the Krasnodar region collected 3303 tons of contaminated sand and soil," - said in the official Telegram-channel of the agency.

It added that 100 square meters of water area in the port of Anapa was treated with sorbent.

"Collected 4 tons of oily liquid", - noted in the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

According to the agency, about 6 thousand rescuers and volunteers are involved in the work, more than 250 units of equipment are functioning on the site.

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On the eve of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation reported that over the past day more than 9 km of the coastline was cleared of fuel oil.

Tankers "Volgoneft-212" and "Volgoneft-239" suffered a disaster on December 15 in the Kerch Strait due to bad weather. As a result, there was a spill of oil products. The tankers ran aground.

The first vessel evacuated 13 people: one of them died, 11 were injured. All 14 crew members were evacuated from the tanker Volgoneft-239 on Monday. Two criminal cases were opened over the incident, one of which was reclassified as more serious because of the death of a sailor.

Governor of the Krasnodar region Veniamin Kondratiev said that after the oil spill in four settlements of the Kuban introduced a state of high alert. Later, on December 17, he specified that after the accident with two tankers fuel oil was carried ashore for dozens of kilometers, two municipalities of the region introduced a state of emergency. Specialists have determined the algorithm of cleaning works.