Oil products leak into the Dnipro River in Zaporizhzhia

Oil products leak into the Dnipro River in Zaporizhzhia

Elizaveta Volkotrub

Stains of oil products washed up to the shore

In the city of Zaporizhzhia, as a result of the shelling of the Dnipro hydroelectric power plant, oil products leaked into the river. Environmentalists took water samples for further laboratory tests.

This was reported by the State Environmental Inspectorate of the Southern District on Telegram.

Employees of the State Ecological Inspectorate of the Southern District, together with the State Emergency Service, eliminated the consequences of shelling of the Dnipro HPP hydraulic structure.

The specialists took measures to absorb the oil leakage, treated the spots that had floated to the shore and detained the spots in foam with a total area of more than 5 thousand m2. It is reported that there is currently no threat.

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in Zaporizhzhia, after the shelling of the Dnipro hydroelectric power plant on the morning of Friday, March 22, oil products got into the Dnipro River.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, environmental inspectors found 4.2 times the permissible concentration of oil products in the Dnipro River after the Russian shelling of the DniproHES on March 22, 1.4 km from the plant and 2.9 times 2.5 km away.

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