Monitoring of the last two weeks of the Voitovka River and I needle tributary was carried out by volunteers from the Green Cross.According to the organizers of special monitoring, during the recent years the ecological component of rivers flowing through the territory of the Leningrad region in the Tosnensky and Kirovsky district caused a lot of complaints from local residents. The villagers complained of an unpleasant odor, muddy water, and a fish floating the top of the abdomen – all this indicates a strong pollution of the surrounding nature, and the reason for this was still unknown. It is worth noting that representatives of the leadership of the feed factory, through the territory of which the tributary of the Voitovka River flows, turned to ecologists several times, to representatives of public organizations and the regulatory authorities with a request to understand the situation, identify and punish the culprit.
At the end of last month, finally, the first results of the study were obtained, which undertook to conduct the North-Western public environmental organization. Based on the results of environmental observations, it was found that the pollution of the river and its tributary is significantly. However, the audit confirmed that the feed factory, as well as the pig -breeding complex located near it, could not be sources of pollution. The chairman of the North-Western branch of the Green Cross, Yuri Shevchuk, noted that the observers were interested in the smell and turbidity of water, which intensified on Saturdays and Wednesdays. The experts had the impression that a huge huge container with sewer waste was overflowing at this time, and some of the sewage were shimmered or specially descended through the drain.
After these guesses, two possible sources of pollution were excluded from among the “suspects”, as well as random discharges in horticultural farms and washing out organic fertilizers from local fields. And the main version of the river pollution was a malfunction of the sewer treatment facilities available in the village of Nurma, which has long been needed either for reconstruction or a complete replacement.