26 February 2010, 19:00
Ecologists: sewer accident in Rostov-on-Don affects ecology
The failure of the Rostov sewer on February 17 changed the ecology of Rostov water bodies. The committee for environment preservation of Rostov-on-Don has warned about it.
Let us remind you that in the morning on February 17 an accident happened in sewer collector No. 68 in the vicinity of the Nansen Street in Rostov-on-Don. Presumably, the sewer failed under the railway tracks. This sewer collects drains from four city districts - Northern Dwelling Massif, most of the Pervomaiskiy District, Voenved and Kamenka. Under preliminary version, the reason of the failure was in running sands, which damaged the sewer.
The check held by specialists showed that as a result of the failure of the sewer and the roofing of the pump station "Severnaya-4" sewages got into the Temernik River, and from there - into the Don River. Water assays revealed excess of exposure limits of nitrogen and ammonium. Ecologists of the committee for preservation of the environment of Rostov have officially addressed city residents asking them to refrain from fishing, especially in water bodies of the Oktiabrskiy, Leninskiy and Zheleznodorozhny Districts, the "Don-TR" reports.
At the same time, Tatiana Spivakova, deputy head of the Rostov Centre for Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring, stated that the maximum permissible concentrations (MPCs) of nitrogen and ammonia in the Don River and the Temernik River confluence, where sewages got as a result of the sewer failure, was exceeded by 1.6 times, which is no danger for the rivers.
Meanwhile, residents of Rostov are alarmed. According to residents' statements, on February 18 dirty water, presumably faecal sewages (by smell and colour), started to arrive to land plots Nos. 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 63 of the Pasechny Lane and Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 in the Sotovaya Street, located in the gardening cooperative "Polygraphist-2" of the Voroshilov District of Rostov-on-Don, "and land plots were completely covered with dirty faecal water, including basements of structures."
