Authorities reported on the removal of sand and fuel oil from the landfill in Voskresenskoye

Less than a thousand tons of sand with fuel oil collected on the coast of Anapa remain at the landfill in the Voskresensky farm, the Krasnodar Territory operational headquarters reported.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, the authorities promised to remove all the sand from the temporary storage site in the Anapa Voskresensky farm by April 1, but they postponed this deadline first to April 15, and then to the end of May, citing a lack of capacity at disposal facilities. About 22 thousand tons of contaminated sand remain at the site in Voskresensky, it will be removed by mid-July, the Kuban operational headquarters said on June 23. On July 24, the authorities reported that five thousand tons of sand remain at the site and set a removal deadline of one and a half weeks. At the same time, the landfill will be used until the end of the coastal cleanup as a temporary storage site for freshly collected emissions.

During the period of liquidation of the consequences of the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait, 178 thousand tons of sand contaminated with fuel oil were removed from the beaches of Anapa and the Temryuk district, of which about 140 thousand tons passed through the temporary accumulation site in the village of Voskresenskoye. As of August 20, less than a thousand tons remain here - 997.8 tons of sand, the operational headquarters reported today.

All the sand is sorted at the "Grokhot" installation, which separates heavily contaminated fractions. Less contaminated sand is sent to the Terra-N LLC landfill in Novorossiysk for use as inert materials, the most contaminated sand is sent to specialized enterprises Biopotential and Mercury Safety for disposal.

Two videos are attached to the message - in the first, filmed on January 9, mountains of sand are visible on the site, it is claimed that in the video there are about 130 thousand tons of sand. In the second video, filmed on August 20, the landfill area is almost empty.

"The question remains - what will happen with the compensatory shipment of sand? Will they do it?", - asked the author of the Telegram channel "Makovozovy" who reposted this message.

Recall that by March 1, the sand most contaminated with fuel oil, collected on the beaches of Anapa, was removed from the site in Voskresenskoye. The sand is stored near houses, a school and a kindergarten, the villagers said, and called for the removal to be expedited. In their appeal on May 30, the villagers demanded a meeting with the mayor of Anapa, and in their next appeal, they called on him to remove all the sand as soon as possible.

On December 24, 2024, the villagers blocked the road in protest. The industrial zone where the sand and fuel oil bags are taken is located near residential buildings, and the dangerous cargo is stored directly on the ground, they said. After this, the authorities equipped a fuel oil storage site in Voskresenskoye.

After the environmental disaster, Rospotrebnadzor declared 141 beaches in Anapa and nine beaches in the Temryuk district unsuitable for recreation. Signs with information about the ban on swimming have been installed there, and announcements about this are also displayed on video screens in different areas of Anapa. Representatives of the administration and Cossacks patrol the coastal areas and ask vacationers not to visit these places. Beach cleaning using equipment is expected to last until July 10-15, regional authorities announced on June 20.

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 about the consequences of the fuel oil spill have been collected by the "Caucasian Knot" on the thematic page "Eco-disaster in Kuban".