In the Zaporizhzhia region, in the floodplain of the island of Serdyuk of the Dnieper ridge, due to a decrease in the water level in the water area of the Kakhovsky reservoir, a mass suffocation of fish occurred in the Kushugum community.
The Regional Commission for Elimination of the Consequences of the Suffocation of Water Bioresources and Their Utilization has identified significant negative consequences of the environmental tragedy, the Zaporizhia Regional Military Administration reports щn Telegram.
It is noted that the Kushugum settlement council removed about 50% of the consequences of the ecological disaster in the places of the largest accumulation of dead fish and concluded contracts for its disposal.
"The community continues to work and clean the territory of dead aquatic biological resources in order to prevent the epizootic situation from worsening in the region," said Serhiy Karpiy, acting director of the Department of Environmental Protection of the Regional State Administration.
He noted that the organization of liquidation of unauthorized and uncontrolled landfills of animal by-products belongs to the authority of the regional state administration.
Karpiy emphasized that the liquidation of such landfills and the burial of animals are carried out by local self-government bodies, on whose territories such landfills occur.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that the mayor of Novaya Kakhovka, Volodymyr Kovalenko, said that the actions of the Russians at the Kakhovka HPP, located in the Kherson region, could lead to an environmental disaster. The occupiers blew up the dykes on the hydraulic structure during the retreat from the right bank, due to which the water level in the Kakhov Sea is rapidly decreasing.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal called on international partners to put pressure on Russia to close the floodgates and restore hydrotechnical structures at the Kakhovskaya HPP. Otherwise, it will threaten an ecological disaster for the entire continent, because the decrease of water in the reservoir can lead to an accident at the Zaporizhzhia NPP.
