CONTENT OF OIL PRODUCTS IN BORDER RIVERS WITH ARMENIA AND GEORGIA TOPPED ACCESSIBLE NORM 1.4 FOLD

Azerbaijan Business Center
Feb 17 2009
Azerbaijan

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The National Environmental Monitoring Department
(Azerbaijan Ministry of Environment & Natural Resources) has conducted
monitoring for the first 10-day period of February 2009 to define
level of pollution in the Kura and Arax trans-border rivers.

The Ministry’s press service informs that the monitoring revealed
exceeding multi-fold the norm of phenols and copper compounds in the
Kura and Arax rivers adjoining to points under trans-border pollutions.

The main water contaminants in Shikhli-2 point of Kura River are
phenols and copper compounds, content of which exceeded maximum
allowable coefficient 2 and 3 fold, in Agstafachay River two-fold,
and Agstafachay water storage 3-fold (phenols) and two-fold (copper
compounds).

Such biogenic matters as ammonium containing in these waters exceeded
the norms as well.

"The cause of that is discharge of water without treatment from
industrial and stock-breeding enterprises on the territory of Armenia
and Georgia.

The monitoring also uncovered that content of phenols and copper
compounds in the Arax River on the border with Armenia exceeded the
norm multifold.

"In Goradiz point content of main pollutants – phenols and copper
compounds was exceeded 2 fold, in Bahramtepe 3-fold, Shahsevan 4-fold,"
it was informed.

Content of oil products in the three points overtopped admissible
norms 1.2-1.4 fold.

Oxygene regime in all points was in sanitary norm and ranged 6.63-9.78
mg/l.