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Specialists of the Central Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan, together with representatives of the Rosprirodnadzor of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Administrative and Technical Inspection Department of the Executive Committee of Kazan and the Gorky Railway, today made a second inspection of the railway right-of-way within the framework of the sanitary and ecological two-month period. The main goal is to control and prevent unauthorized storage of waste. The raid took place along the route: "Kazan – Vysokaya Gora – Vosstaniya – Sviyazhsk – Laishevo – Kazan"

Unauthorized waste storage was detected by inspectors of the Priiksky Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan in the village of Popovka, Bavli district, within the framework of a sanitary and ecological two-month period. Household garbage and waste littered an area of 250 sq. m. The volume of the landfill was 150 cubic meters.

Inspectors prevented illegal land works on the territory of one of the Almetyevsk plants.

 

At the end of April, ecologists of the Priiksky TA received a complaint from residents of the village of Yekaterinovka. They reported that unknown persons were draining a liquid with a pronounced chemical odor, and also complained that industrial waste was being buried in their area.  Specialists of the Priiksky department together with a representative of the Chamber of Property and Land Relations of the Yutazinsky district examined a land plot near the village of Yekaterinovka. Environmentalists took samples.

At the end of April, inspectors of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, together with specialists of the Ministry's laboratory, traveled to the Privolzhsky district of Kazan following a complaint from residents. 

Kazan residents sent a message to the Ministry's hotline about an unpleasant smell in the Aviastroitelny district. Specialists of the Central Department of Environmental Supervision of the Ministry of Ecology left on a mobile ecological laboratory to Akademik Pavlov str, 17  At night, from 23:00 to 00:00, environmentalists took samples of atmospheric air in automatic mode using special equipment installed on the PEL.

Within the framework of the sanitary and ecological two-month period, an air survey of the territories of 5 more municipal districts was carried out: Verkhneuslonsky, Apastovsky, Buinsky, Tetyushsky and Kamsko-Ustinsky districts.

Employees of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan during the sanitary and ecological two-month period regularly conduct surveys of the territory of settlements.


 

During the next on-site inspection within the framework of the sanitary and ecological two-month period in the city of Almetyevsk on Pervomaiskaya St., ecologists of the South-Eastern TA found an unauthorized dump with a volume of 900 cubic meters.

 

Today, inspectors of the Central Technical Department of the Ministry of Ecology, within the framework of the sanitary and ecological two-month period, together with representatives of the Gorky Railway, the Volga-Kama Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor for Tatarstan, the Kazan Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office, employees of district administrations and the Ministry of Forestry of Tatarstan examined the right-of-way of JSC "Russian Railways". 
During the raid, 69 landfills were found along the railways.