Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
March 17 2007

Armenia’s plant failure discharges heavy effluents to Azeri rivers

[ 17 Mar 2007 12:37 ]

Armenia’s Akhtala Mining Combine discharged heavy and harmful
effluents to the Debet and the Khram onward to the Kur after the
accident.

Azerbaijan’s ecological labs have been put on the alert in the
regions of Kazakh and Beilagan during March 6-16 to analyze the river
water and the chemicals let into the water.
Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry told APA that the examination
of the samples taken from the Khram, Kur, Tovuzchay, Aghstafachay
Rivers and Aghstafa Water Reservoir showed that the water contains
copper ions 6.2 times above the average, zinc substances are 1.2
times above the norm in the water of Khram River and 1.3 times more
than the norm in the Kur River, 1.2 times more in Tovuzchay and 1.1
times in Aghstafachay. /APA /