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A meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission on preparation of proposals on operating regimes of the Kuibyshev and Nizhnekamsk reservoirs was held today at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Representatives of the regions emphasized that they intend to support the interests of the Middle Volga at the meeting of the Interdepartmental Working Group on the Regulation of the Reservoirs of the Volga-Kama Cascade, which will be held on February 6 in Moscow.

The reception of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan received a complaint from local residents about the development of a quarry in Nurlatskiy district. According to the Nurlat residents, clay was illegally exported from this site. The inspectors made a trip to the address indicated in the appeal. As the inspection showed, this territory belonged to one of the enterprises of the Nurlatskiy district, but it violated the terms of the agreement on subsoil use. Currently, the organization voluntarily paid a fine of 300 thousand rubles.

The employees of the Prikamskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan talked with pupils of Secondary School No. 40 in Naberezhnye Chelny about the importance of useful environmental habits, separate collection and responsible consumption. Environmentalists reminded schoolchildren of the harm plastic bags do to our planet.

The event was organized within the framework of the environmental social and educational project “Ecolyata – Doshkolyata”. Dressed in a distinctive, ecological color, the pupils of the “Teremok” kindergarten read poems about nature, painted thematic drawings and posters. Young conservationists inspected all groups and office premises of the kindergarten. As part of the eco-raid, senior preschool children explained to the younger ones how to use energy and water resources economically so as not to harm the environment.

We identified the categories of human waste and possible solutions, found out what forms of waste are recycled. Employees of the Central Territorial Administration conducted environmental lessons on separate waste collection at Kindergarten No. 408 of Kazan. The pupils learned to see raw materials for processing in the waste and came to conclusion about the benefits of separate waste collection.

How to take a water sample? How to explore the air? This and many other issues were learned by the pupils of the “School Forest District” association of Nizhnekamskiy district. The guys visited the laboratory of the Zakamskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. Pupils were shown a laboratory with instruments and equipment for taking and determining air, water and soil samples.

124 appeals were received at the Republican Public Reception of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan from the beginning of the year.

31 of them came through the School Eco-patrol mobile application.

Employees of the Prikamskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan as a result of an unscheduled audit revealed environmental violations in two organizations. The audit found that the organization of the Menzelinskiy district did not compile a passport for waste of I-IV class hazard, which is a violation of the Law on Production and Consumption Wastes No. 89 of June 24, 1998. At the Chelny enterprise, the draft standards for maximum permissible emissions were not implemented and the object of negative environmental impact was not registered as prescribed on June 25, 2019.

In both cases, a protocol on an administrative offense has been drawn up in relation to a legal entity under Part 1 of Art. 19.5 of Administrative Code of the Russian Federation.

Specialists of the Priikskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan talked about the territories preserved in their original form - reserves - with the first-graders of the Gymnasium of Aznakayevo. They explained to the children that often people behave towards nature irresponsibly, polluting rivers, destroying animals for profit, and cutting down forests.

An unusual excursion for pupils of Secondary School No. 35 in Naberezhnye Chelny was conducted by employees of the Prikamskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. During the event, the basic working principles of the employees of the specialized inspection of analytical control were explained to the participants, as well as examples of determining a number of chemicals in the natural environment were shown.