Sanitary and Environmental State of the Territories near Railway Shelterbelts
15 November 2012, Thursday
The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan carried out inspection of the sanitary and environmental state of the railway shelterbelt and near-by territories on “Kazan – Zelenodolsk – Kazan – the International Airport of Kazan” route with the participation of Rustem Kamalov, the First Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan and Chief State Inspector of the Republic of Tatarstan for nature protection.
The representatives of the Central Territorial Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rosprirodnadzor Directorate for the Republic of Tatarstan, executive committees of the Sovetskiy and Cis-Volga districts of Kazan city, executive committees of the Zelenodolsk and Laishevo districts, and the Deputy Chief of the Kazan Branch of the Gorki Railway also took part in the inspection.
The inspection gave journalists and concerned parties the possibility to get acquainted with the ecological situation near railroad tracks on the Kazan site of the Gorki Railway, and to scope out the scale of contamination.
The inspection revealed that the Gorki Railway and the near-by territory on the given route are to a satisfactory standard. However, there are some points for garden associations and private sector of Kazan suburbs to be criticized for. These points concern the state of container sites and fencing of the territories of garden societies and private sector.
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.