Anapa beaches blocked with a berm to protect them from fuel oil

A protective rampart was equipped along the beaches of Anapa to guard against storms and repeated releases of fuel oil on the cleaned sand. About it on Monday, February 3, reports the press service of the Krasnodar region operative headquarters.

At the moment, the length of the berm is more than 21 km. It stretches from the Central beach of Anapa to the village of Veselovka in the Temryuksky district. As explained in the operative headquarters, the rampart and ditch will restrain the surge waves. If the sea will again bring oil products to the shore, they will be absorbed by the network.

According to KrasnodarMedia news agency, since the fuel oil spill activists and rescuers have cleaned more than 350 km of coast, having collected more than 178 thousand tons of sand polluted with fuel oil.

Earlier volunteers from Anapa created unusual shovels for cleaning beaches. Participants of the emergency response learned about the invention on the Internet and decided to realize the idea.

Tankers "Volgoneft-212" and "Volgoneft-239" crashed during a strong storm in the Kerch Strait on December 15, 2024. As a result of the accident, about 40% of fuel oil leaked out of them.

Two days later, by the morning of December 17, the oil products reached the shores of Anapa and Temryuksky district, and then Crimea. On December 26, a federal emergency was declared. On January 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the fuel oil spill in the Black Sea one of the most serious environmental challenges for the country in recent years.