Ecological specialists conducted an ordinary raid in Admiralteyskaya Sloboda
6 March 2014, Thursday
Today, inspectors of the Central Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan conducted an ordinary raid on the territory of Admiralteyskaya Sloboda.Representatives of Kazan Interdistrict Nature Protection Prosecutor’s Office, the Sixth Nature Protection Investigation department of the VolgaInterregionalInvestigation Department under theInvestigation Committee of the Russian Federation, the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage for the Republic of Tatarstan, experts of the municipal unitary enterprise “Vodokanal” were invited for joint work. Discharge of storm sewers of the companies that discharge wastewaters into the old bend of the river Kazanka was checked. Inspectors of the Central specialized inspection of analytical control under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstandrew water samples of storm sewersand sampled the point of mixingwith natural water. All in all, 6 samples were drawn, including 4 samples of sewage waters and 2 samples of natural water to determine the degree of contamination.According to the State Inspector of the Central Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Almaz Zakirov, the main aim of the inspection lies in detection of the sources of pollution, bringing of offenders to the responsibility established by law, as well as cessation of discharge of polluted drains into the water facility.
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Today, at the weekly staff meeting with the heads of structural and territorial divisions, the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Azat Ziganshin, presented badges and official identification cards to the staff of the department.