In the Poltava region, the NGO Ekoltava has discovered contamination of the Pushkar ponds and taken water samples for analysis.
This was reported by Ekoltava.
"We decided to finally understand what was happening and ordered a water test in a Kyiv laboratory, and the result frankly shocked us," the NGO said.
Laboratory analysis data shows that:
- Total salt content – 1883;
- chlorides – 276;
- sulfates – 322;
- chemical oxygen consumption dichromate – 96.5;
- dissolved oxygen – 0.37;
- polyphosphates – 39.45;
- nitrate nitrogen – 0.556;
- nitrite nitrogen – 0.14;
- ammonium nitrogen – 29.95;
- sodium – 377;
- iron – 0.48;
Seven indicators at once do not meet the standards, three of them by ten times or more.
Such an environment negatively affects the local flora and fauna. But this is nothing compared to the content of polyphosphates, ammonium nitrogen and dissolved oxygen, which deviate tenfold from the norm. These substances can have a serious impact on the water ecosystem.
It is known that the cause of this was a stream that flows through the city's industrial zone.
Ecopoltava assumes that the pollution is caused by both domestic and industrial wastewater.
The public organization plans to initiate official appeals to the Poltava City Council, the Housing and Utilities Department, the State Environmental Inspectorate, and Poltavavodokanal.
As Ecopolitics previously reported, in the Kharkiv region, in Zmiiv, a lake with sewage was formed a few meters from the cemetery, which flows through a pipe into a tributary of the Mzha River.
