Criminal case on sewage discharge in Tukaevo district
Damage to the environment estimated in 2 million RUB was caused by the communal enterprise of the Tukaevo district. The fact of wastewater discharge in Novotroitskoye village was revealed by the inspectors of the Prikamsky territorial administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Tukaevo district in April this year. During the inspection it was established that the sewage of the local enterprise flow to the terrain and enter the river Chelna. In the selected water samples, SIAC specialists established a violation of the maximum permissible concentration (MPC) standards for ammonium ions. In addition, the excess of chemical indicators was recorded in other water bodies: p. Tiranjelga - ammonium ions (1.8 times), nitrite ions (4.9 times); R. Burdinka - ammonium ions (3.6 times), nitrite ions (2.1 times); R. Inysh - ions of ammonium (2.5 times). On this fact, the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan sent an application to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Tukaevo district for the procedural decision.
Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan issued a decision on the initiation of a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 247 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with respect to the guilty managers of the communal enterprise (production of prohibited types of hazardous waste, transportation, storage, burial, use or other handling of radioactive, bacteriological, chemical substances and wastes in violation of established rules, resulting in pollution, poisoning, or contamination of the environment, harm to human health or mass death of animals, as well as committed in the area of an environmental disaster or in an emergency environmental situation).
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