A spill of oily products was recorded in the water area of the Nakhodka Bay in Primorye, the waste was presumably dumped by a foreign merchant ship, reports Interfax citing the city administration.
“There was a message that bilge water or other oily liquids from a foreign merchant ship were discharged in the water area of the Nakhodka Bay in the area of the berth wall of Attis Enterprise LLC,” the agency cites the source.
Specialists are working at the spill site, they have already deployed booms. No traces of oil products were found behind the fences. To date, more than a thousand liters of oily liquid have been collected in the water area of the bay. The area of contamination has not yet been specified.
According to the agency, Rosprirodnadzor reacted to the incident – the department employees establish the circumstances of the incident. The transport prosecutor’s office is also monitoring the situation. “At present, there are no grounds for the intervention of the transport prosecutor’s office. In case of establishing the fact of contamination of the water area by the vessel, the Nakhodka transport prosecutor’s office will join the inspection, the whole complex of response measures will be taken against the culprits,” www.interfax.ru “target =” _blank “class =” source “> Interfax representative of the Far Eastern Transport Prosecutor’s Office.
At the end of May, an oil spill was recorded at CHPP-3 in Norilsk. As a result of the depressurization of the tank, 20 thousand cubic meters of diesel fuel spilled out of it. Rosprirodnadzor estimated the damage at 147 billion rubles for water bodies and almost 739 million rubles for soil. In September Norilsk Nickel presented a plan for remediation of lands affected by the fuel spill.