Black Sea sand containing fuel oil will not be utilized in the Rostov region

Sand containing fuel oil from the Black Sea coast will not be utilized in Semikarakorsky district of Rostov region. This was announced on January 25 by Yuri Slyusar, the governor's acting governor.

"Today on my instruction to the landfill of the private company "Southern City", which has concluded a contract with the Krasnodar Ministry of Emergency Situations, went with inspection Rospotrebnadzor and the Ministry of Natural Resources. The Prosecutor's Office was separately involved. The landfill is not ready for this work", - he informed in his Telegram-channel.

Slyusar pointed out that the main task at the moment is to provide as much help as possible to Kuban and Crimea and at the same time to prevent the scaling of the ecological disaster.

"We keep the situation under control," he concluded.

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Earlier, on January 24, the emergency regime of federal character was introduced in Sevastopol in connection with the crash of tankers in the Kerch Strait. It is noted that such a decision will help to attract additional forces and means of federal executive authorities, state corporations, as well as to provide the necessary financial assistance from the reserve fund of the Russian government.

On this day the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation Alexander Kozlov during the field meeting of the governmental commission on liquidation of the consequences of the incident said that the beaches of the Black Sea resorts after the accident with tankers in the Kerch Strait will be brought to a normal condition by the summer season.

On the same day, the Ministry of Natural Resources reported that Rospotrebnadzor until March 1 will conduct a preliminary assessment of compliance of beaches affected by the spillage of fuel oil after the crash of tankers in the Kerch Strait for compliance with sanitary standards.

The day before, the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources said that the Russian government will allocate 1.5 billion rubles to reimburse the costs of liquidation of the consequences of the wreck of tankers in the Black Sea. According to Kozlov, three priority deposits of quartz sand near Anapa have already been identified, from where the resource will be taken to restore beaches after their cleaning.

Tankers "Volgoneft-212" and "Volgoneft-239" due to bad weather crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15, 2024. The incident resulted in a spill of oil products. 27 people were evacuated from both vessels, one person died. On the instructions of the Russian President, a working group was created to coordinate the work to eliminate the consequences of the emergency. The regional emergency regime in Sevastopol was introduced on January 4.