During a survey of the territory of Yelabuga, inspectors from the Kama Department of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan revealed an unauthorized discharge of wastewater onto the terrain. The discharge was carried out from a sewer well.
The area of the contaminated site was 43 sq.m.
Specialists from the Environmental Supervision Department took soil samples from polluted and clean soil areas for comparison. According to the results of laboratory tests at the discharge site, the excess of the maximum permissible concentration of pollutants in the total content of ferrous and trivalent iron was 24.4 times and chloride ions 2.6 times.
Since the violation was recorded on municipal land, a warning was sent to the Executive Committee of the Yelabuga district about the inadmissibility of violating the mandatory requirements of environmental legislation and a requirement to eliminate the violation.