NEWS

141 applications were received by the Republican Public Environmental Reception for the period from March 25 to March 31. 

From January 1 to March 29 this year, 17 automatic air pollution control stations performed more than 1.5 million measurements, including five automatic air pollution control stations in Kazan performed more than 500 thousand measurements.

Through the feedback platform, a complaint was received from residents of the village of Beekeeper about an unpleasant smell, presumably from the factory of LLC Kama.

During the 2 weeks of March, the Ministry of Ecology received more than 15 complaints from residents of the Tukayevsky district of the republic, in particular from residents of Knyazevsky and Komsomolsk rural settlements. People complained of a fetid smell from the pig breeding complex of Kamsky Bacon LLC, located on the territory of Komsomolsky rural settlement.

The Ministry of Ecology received a complaint about air quality from a resident of the Arsky district. 

Unauthorized landfills, including snow dumps, have become the most pressing issue of concern to the population. 56 messages have been received on this topic. 

During an on-site inspection of the territory of the Chistopol district by inspectors of the Volga-Kama Department of the Ministry of Ecology, the fact of unauthorized storage of snow after winter road cleaning was revealed.

With the help of a mobile environmental laboratory, air samples were taken at a point selected taking into account the wind direction, as well as outside the sanitary protection zone of nearby enterprises. According to the results of the study, the maximum permissible concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the atmospheric air was exceeded by 11 times.

From March 11 to 17, 79 applications were received by the Republican Public Environmental Reception. 7 of them came through the School Eco-patrol mobile application, 11 messages through the People's Control system, 2 were registered on the POS feedback platform and 59 notifications were received through other communication channels of the Ministry.

The head of the Volga-Kama Department of the Ministry of Ecology Rafis Akhmetzyanov spoke about the results of the department's work in 2023. He made a presentation at meetings with representatives of Executive Committees and heads of rural settlements of Alekseevsky, Alkeevsky, Aksubaevsky, Novosheshminsky, Spassky, Rybno-Slobodsky and Chistopol districts.