The state of the structures on the banks of the Shepsi River has outraged an ecologist.

In Shepsi, a pier contaminated with oil products has not been cleaned up three months after the oil rains.

As "Caucasian Knot" reported, the scale of pollution on beaches in Tuapse is significant, and authorities are not taking sufficient action, despite planning a full resort season. Volunteers at only a few beaches receive government support, while some beaches lack both cleanup and equipment, ecologist Yevgeny Vitishko noted in May. As of mid-June, most of the coastline outside the beaches in the Tuapse District remains contaminated with oil products. Some volunteers said they were waiting for permission to work. Environmentalists noted that traces of oil products are still found in certain areas of the coast of the Tuapse District of Krasnodar Krai.

Ecologist Yevgeny Vitishko posted photographs of the pier in Shepsi on his Telegram channel. As you can see from the photos, the pier is thickly covered in black stains, including visible black circles.

"We cleaned it up as best we could... And the circles from the barrels were probably made by aliens. Formally, these hydraulic structures are on the books of Russian Railways. Do you think they'll clean them up?" asked Vitishko.

Comments on this post and others on Vitishko's Telegram channel are disabled.

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

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