Authorities reported on the use of the landfill in the village of Voskresensky.

Sand and fuel oil collected on the coast of Anapa continues to arrive at the site in the Voskresensky village in Anapa, but after sorting, it is quickly removed for disposal, authorities reported.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," by the end of August, less than 1,000 tons of sand and fuel oil collected on the coast of Anapa remained at the landfill in the Voskresensky village, Krasnodar Krai task force reported.

Authorities had promised to remove all the sand from the temporary storage site in the Voskresensky village in Anapa by April 1, but 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 Voskresenskoye, it will be removed by mid-July, the Kuban operational headquarters announced on June 23. On July 24, 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.

On October 16, 162 tons of oil-contaminated soil were removed from the temporary accumulation site in the village of Voskresenskoye, the operational headquarters of the Krasnodar Territory reported. Oil-contaminated algae from Anapa and fragments of oil products from the Temryuk district, collected after recent emissions, are delivered to the temporary accumulation site. The site is used only for quick sorting, after which the soil is sent for disposal without long-term storage. On October 16, the site received 108 tons of contaminated sand, and 162 tons of sorted soil were removed. "The remaining sand at the site at the end of the day amounted to 592 tons," the report says.

As a reminder, by March 1, the sand most contaminated with fuel oil, collected from Anapa beaches, was removed from the Voskresenskoye site. Residents of the village indicated that the sand is stored near houses, a school, and a kindergarten, and called for speedy removal. In a May 30 appeal, the village residents demanded a meeting with the mayor of Anapa; in a subsequent appeal, they called on him to remove all the sand as soon as possible.

Residents of the village on December 24 In 2024, the road was blocked in protest. The industrial zone where sandbags and fuel oil are transported is located near residential buildings, and the hazardous cargo is stored directly on the ground, they stated. Following this, authorities established a fuel oil storage site in Voskresenskoye.

As a reminder, on December 15, 2024, two tankers carrying fuel oil sank in the Kerch Strait. A crew member of one of the tankers died as a result. A spill also occurred. petroleum products, which led to catastrophic environmental consequences, according to a "Caucasian Knot" report "Fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait".

As a result of the environmental disaster, Rospotrebnadzor 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 a "Caucasian Knot" report "The extent of fuel oil pollution in southern Russia.