Specialists and volunteers eliminate sedimented areas and restore the self-healing capacity of rivers, reservoirs and lakes. The entire water structure of the country depends on the cleanliness of small rivers and other bodies of water. This means agriculture and urban agriculture, shipping and many other industries.
Sunzha’s second birth
In Ingushetia, in the city of Magas, the restoration of an almost shallow section of the Sunzha River, 4.6 kilometers long, has resumed. The water area will be cleared of sediment, trees and bushes, bottom sediment and debris.
“I have been living in Magas for 12 years and the sight of the river made me sad,” said Marina Bokova. “It seemed that only a narrow strip of water remained of it. The river improvement works have worked. I hope. And rightly so! In April this year, the water returned to its course, the river seemed to come to life before our eyes. I am glad that soon we will be able to spend time by the water, relax with the whole family, and enjoy nature.”
And recently a stork and a fox were spotted near the river – a sure sign that life is returning to the surrounding forests and fields as well. At the same time, work is being carried out on the banks of the Yandyrka and Surkhakhi rivers. That’s another 8.5 kilometres.
Murmur, stream!
In Kaliningrad, the contractor managed to clean the section of the Litovsky stream from Alexander Nevsky Street to Gagarin Street. It’s 500 meters. They collected more than 3.6 thousand cubic meters of silt and garbage!
“After the final cleaning, the stream will be transformed,” said Maxim Nikitin, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Kaliningrad region. “It runs along picturesque places: the Lithuanian Wall, the Grolman Bastion, the Royal Gate. We will make the banks of the stream another place for Kaliningrad residents and tourists to walk.”
Drink for your health
In the Saratov region, the cleaning of the Khoper River continues in the city of Balashov. The specialists will have to improve about six kilometers of the river bed.
Last year in the region, within the framework of the national Ecology project, the bed of the Zhidkaya Solyanka river was cleaned. 187 thousand cubic meters of sediments were removed from the bottom in an area of 4.8 kilometers. This improved the quality of life in the village of Komsomolskoye and at the Timofevo station.
“The purity of river water is the most important condition for normal life of people. In some arid areas of the Saratov region,” said the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the region, Konstantin Doronin. “Groundwater is not suitable for drinking due to its high salinity.”
By the way, this year the water from six springs was declared unfit for drinking without boiling, the Saratov administration reported. Rospotrebnadzor inspected them in February-March.
Get well soon, Baksan.
Eight years ago, mudflows polluted the Baksan River in Kabardino-Balkaria. Its cleanup will be completed this year. 5.5 kilometres of the riverbed will be put in order.
“Problem areas must be cleared of large objects that impede the flow. This will improve the ecological conditions of the river and prevent its degradation and erosion of the banks,” said Eldar Nagoev, head of the organization carrying out the river cleaning work. bed. According to him, once the works are completed, the living conditions of five thousand inhabitants of the republic will improve.
Spring cleaning
In Russia, they help survive not only rivers and lakes, but also sea areas. In the Far East sunken ships are recovered and disposed of.
All this is provided for by the federal project “General Clean-up”. Its task is to improve the condition of territories and water zones and to solve long-standing problems that have arisen due to human damage to the environment.
This year, 82 ships will be removed from the sea bays of the Far East. In total, 133 ships have already been dismantled within the framework of the project. However, “general cleanup is not only the improvement of the seas, but also the elimination of landfills, abandoned industrial facilities and dangerous wells.
The sunken will rise
In the Magadan region, work is underway to remove the sunken Neva shipyard from Nagaev Bay.
The floating dock stopped working and fell on its side in 1999. Specialists have already cut away its surface part and started to extract it with water. Cleaning the waters of the region not only improves the environment, but also ensures the safe movement of ships in the bay.
The Fishing Port is also being modernised and a Sea Tourism Centre is being created. They will complement Magadan’s seafront and will revive the volume of maritime cargo business, including through the transshipment of fish products caught in the open sea.
“We are removing abandoned ships that interfere with navigation and poison marine ecosystems,” said the head of the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources Alexander Kozlov. “By December this year, we will clean up marine waters in six regions of the Far East: in the Kamchatka, Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories, in the Magadan and Sakhalin regions and in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.”
RG Help
In five years, thanks to the national project “Ecology”, more than 417 kilometers of the country’s hydrographic network and 21 thousand hectares of water bodies have been restored to health.
This year, large-scale work will be carried out in 49 regions. Almost 177 kilometers of riverbeds will be cleaned and more than 3.9 thousand hectares of reservoirs will be restored. This will improve the living conditions of more than 2 million Russians.
Read all the texts about national projects here.
