Unauthorized discharge of sewage into the Elhovka River was discovered by inspectors of the Prikamskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. The residents of the Yurtovo village of Menzelinskiy district appealed to environmentalists with a complaint about violation of environmental legislation. Having left at the address indicated by them, the inspectors found that the storage tanks and pit basin for collection of domestic wastewater from 8 apartment blocks of the village are overcrowded.