Volunteers reported new fuel oil emissions on the Kuban coast

Local emissions of oil products on the coast of Anapa and Temryuk district continue, while beach cleanup work is being carried out by a minimal number of activists, volunteers said.

"Caucasian Knot" wrote that on July 27, the Kuban operational headquarters reported the collection of 266 bags of fuel oil from the seabed in one day. Earlier, two of the three sections of the sand rampart that protected the coast from fuel oil emissions were dismantled. Vacationers, despite the ban, visit the beaches where the sand is being cleaned, the head of the work said. From July 25 to 29, no new fuel oil emissions were recorded on the coast of Anapa, the authorities said. Volunteers, in turn, claim that emissions continue. On August 2, they called for those willing to help them with their work.

On the coast from Port Taman to Cape Zhelezny Rog, local emissions of oil products periodically occur; the situation is unstable and requires constant monitoring, the volunteer headquarters "Dolphins", which is based in the village of Volna, reported on August 4.

According to the headquarters, during the week from July 28 to August 3, only nine volunteers worked to clean the beaches from fuel oil pollution in the village of Volna, Cape Zhelezny Rog and Belaya Gora, with the support of employees of the state service "Kuban-SPAS". Thus, on Belaya Gora, volunteers cleaned out "old deposits of fuel oil" that had settled on the rocks.

“19 cubic meters of garbage and 99 bags of fuel oil were collected, 35 tons of fuel oil and fuel oil mixture were removed from the shore,” says the weekly report published on the headquarters’ Telegram channel.

Volunteers from the “Network, Sieve, Shovel” association working on the Bugayskaya Spit reported that on August 4 they continued to work on collecting the last discharge and sifted the sand.

The Kuban operational headquarters has not published reports on the progress of cleaning the coastline or the situation with discharges since August 1 - the last report on the situation with discharges concerns the period from July 25 to 29.

On December 15, 2024, two tankers carrying fuel oil sank in the Kerch Strait, which led to catastrophic environmental consequences. Details can be found in the "Caucasian Knot" reference "Fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait". Materials on the consequences of the fuel oil spill have been collected by the "Caucasian Knot" on the thematic page "Eco-disaster in Kuban".

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