No one can say what poison was washed away from the banks of the Dnieper - scientist
The shallowing of the Kakhovka Reservoir is an environmental disaster, the consequences of which will be monitored for many years. It is not known for certain what pollutants ended up in the Black Sea, and what environmental consequences this will lead to, primarily for the coasts of Bulgaria and Romania.
Svetlana Rubtsova, deputy director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Sevastopol State University, announced this on the air of Channel One Sevastopol, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“It will take many years to restore the Kakhovka reservoir, and what we now see is a desert in place of the water that went into the Dnieper-Bug estuary. He too will not recover soon.
Speaking about the response to the Crimean Peninsula, I would like to recall the map of the Black Sea currents and consider that the water that arrives from the Dnieper will first of all go towards Bulgaria. That is, these are the “Knipovich glasses” that we have. And the water will go to the European part of the Black Sea, not to Crimea. And it can arrive to the shores of Crimea only in a few years, taking into account the speed of the spread of water masses,” the scientist assured.
She emphasized that during the circulation of currents, water has the property of self-cleaning. And by the time it reaches Crimea, not a trace of pollution will remain. But what exactly substances got into the sea water remains to be determined.
“Of course, the water in the form in which it arrived in the Black Sea, in the Dnieper-Bug estuary, will not arrive on the shores of Crimea, and in principle, those people who will come to rest on our coast in the near future have nothing special to fear. But I can say that we don’t know for sure what was washed away there. Because if you believe the legislation, and if it was not violated, then the coastal protective strip is 300-500 meters, on which it was impossible to locate various hazardous enterprises, warehouses for fuel and lubricants, and cattle burial grounds.
And if we hope that this is not the case, then in principle we should not expect any serious surges in pollutants. But this is our guess. In fact, what was completely washed away there is still unknown, and only scientists can establish this if they go and take samples,” Rubtsova pointed out.
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