Seminar on implementation of the project “Health of my School” at the Specialized Inspection for Analytical Control of the Volzhsko-Kamsky Territorial Department
1 November 2012, Thursday
Educational seminar on implementation of the project “Health of my School” (school environmental monitoring) was held at the Specialized Inspection for Analytical Control of the Volzhsko-Kamsky Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Head of the Specialized Inspection for Analytical Control of the Volzhsko-Kamsky Territorial Department Marina Zakharova gave a tour of the laboratory for the teachers of the Secondary School No. 3 and the Palace of Youth Creativity of Chistopol. In the course of the tour, participants of the seminar familiarized with the work of the specialized inspection for environmental monitoring including equipment and devices used to conduct toxicological analyses and tests, as well as to sample water and ambient air.
Informative literature, normative and methodical documents were provided to help teachers implement the project and conduct experiments.
Inspectors of the Central Department, together with representatives of the Kazan Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office and the Office of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography of the Republic of Tatarstan, conducted a survey of the territory of the Zelenodolsk district.
The events were held in the Zainsky district. The commission included inspectors from the Zakamsky Department of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan received an appeal from residents about violations of environmental legislation in the Yelabuga district. Inspectors from the Kama Department went to the site and confirmed the fact of dumping production and consumption waste into the territory of the Bug River water protection zone.