Kuban authorities deny new fuel oil emissions for a month

No new fuel oil emissions have been recorded in Anapa for a month, the Kuban Operational Headquarters said. At the same time, volunteers report new fuel oil emissions in the Temryuk District.

"Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote that from July 25 to August 19, the authorities did not record new fuel oil emissions on the coast of Anapa, although volunteers at that time stated that emissions were continuing. On August 23, volunteers recorded emissions in the area of Lake Tuzla, and the "Dolphins" headquarters asked for help in cleaning the shore. After the storm on August 24, new oil product emissions appeared on the coast . According to activists, in the Temryuk district, near the site of the tanker wreck, a large amount of fuel oil is being washed ashore.

During the last week, from August 19 to 26, no new emissions of fuel oil were detected in Anapa, the Kuban Operational Headquarters reported today.

According to the authorities, daily monitoring of the coastline has not recorded new emissions of oil products in Anapa for a whole month, since July 25. According to them, the removal of fuel oil from the seabed continues in the village of Dzhemete, and the local beach remains the only one where the protective rampart has not yet been dismantled - it will be preserved until the divers finish their work.

Volunteers from the Dolphins headquarters, in turn, discovered new emissions of oil products on the Belaya Gora beach near the village of Artyushchenko.

“Fresh fuel oil emissions have reached here too. (...) Six new bags of fuel oil have been added to the old bags from the Belaya Gora beach, which is located about 20 km from the epicenter of the environmental disaster of recent days - Lake Tuzla,” the headquarters’ Telegram channel reports.

In December 2024, two tankers with 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".

As a result of the eco-disaster, Rospotrebnadzor has declared 141 beaches in Anapa and nine beaches in the Temryuk district unsuitable for recreation. Fuel oil was found on all beaches in Anapa, on the coast in the Temryuk district and on the coast of the Sea of Azov in the Slavyansk district of Kuban, according to the Caucasian Knot report "The extent of fuel oil pollution in southern Russia".

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