The Economic Court of the Cherkasy Region charged the Cherkasy communal enterprise CHELUASH with almost 500,000 hryvnias for polluting the Dnipro River with sewage.
The enterprise also did not have a permit for special water use, the State Environmental Inspection of Ukraine reports on Facebook.
It is noted that eco-inspectors conducted a 10-day monitoring of the quality of discharged wastewater. They discovered an excess of a number of chemical substances in the water from the storm sewer near berth No. 5 in Cherkasy.
"The utility company did not have a permit for special water use and an approved list of maximum permissible discharges at the time of the inspection," the press service emphasized.
The report said that eco-inspectors worked on the case for the plaintiff together with prosecutors of the specialized environmental prosecutor's office. The court, taking into account the arguments of the State Inspectorate and the prosecutor, completely satisfied the claim.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in Ukraine, for the first time in the years of independence, an indictment was sent to the court on the fact of committing ecocide, namely a mass plague in a tributary of the Sluch River. Two employees of a heating water supply company in Khmelnytskyi region are accused of poisoning the river with industrial discharges from cardboard and paper production.
As EcoPolitic reported earlier, the Prosecutor's Office of the Kyiv Region informed about the suspicion of an official of one of the communal enterprises, who violated the rules of environmental safety. This caused the long-term pollution of the Krasylivka River by effluents from sewage treatment facilities for more than 4 million hryvnias.
