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Sungari waters reach Russia`s Amur River after chemical accident in
KHABAROVSK, August 11 (Itar-Tass) -- Waters of the Sungari River from
the area contaminated with chemicals after an accident at a Chinese
chemical plant in the province of Jilin have reached Russia's Amur River
in the Far East, a spokesman for the Khabarovsk territorial administration
of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told Itar-Tass on Wednesday in
comments of laboratory tests.
Water samples taken near the village of Nizhneleninsky at the
confluence of the Sungari and Amur Rivers have shown no increased levels
of chlorides, phenols, ammonites or other hazardous substances. Water
acidity also proved normal, the spokesman said.
According to Emergencies Ministry's experts, the water from the
Sungari River will reach Khabarovsk with its 600,000 population on August
14-15. The city gets drinking water from the water intake structure in the
Amur River bed, therefore preventive measures were taken to ensure
population's safety at any level of the river waters' contamination.
Additional test collecting stations have been established up the river.
Water tests will be collected at several stations along the Amur section
from Nizhneleninsky to Khabarovsk till August 20.
Specialists of Khabarovsk's water supplies company Vodokanal say no
contamination with hazardous substances have been registered in the Amur
waters as of yet, that is why they employ regular water treatment
technologies. In case pollutants concentrations go up, Vodokanal will use
charcoal filters.
The accident occurred in the Chinese province Jilin on June 28, when
floodwaters washed some 7,000 barrels with poisonous chemicals from the
plant's warehouse into the Wende River and the Sungari River. According to
information of the Chinese side, 3,000 170-kilogram barrels were filled
with trimethylchlorosilane and other hazardous chemicals, while 4,000
barrels were empty. The Chinese side assured that all barrels were taken
out from the Sungari River and the river water was not contaminated.
Contacting with water, such chemicals do not form any toxic products.
-0-ras/kud
the area contaminated with chemicals after an accident at a Chinese
chemical plant in the province of Jilin have reached Russia's Amur River
in the Far East, a spokesman for the Khabarovsk territorial administration
of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told Itar-Tass on Wednesday in
comments of laboratory tests.
Water samples taken near the village of Nizhneleninsky at the
confluence of the Sungari and Amur Rivers have shown no increased levels
of chlorides, phenols, ammonites or other hazardous substances. Water
acidity also proved normal, the spokesman said.
According to Emergencies Ministry's experts, the water from the
Sungari River will reach Khabarovsk with its 600,000 population on August
14-15. The city gets drinking water from the water intake structure in the
Amur River bed, therefore preventive measures were taken to ensure
population's safety at any level of the river waters' contamination.
Additional test collecting stations have been established up the river.
Water tests will be collected at several stations along the Amur section
from Nizhneleninsky to Khabarovsk till August 20.
Specialists of Khabarovsk's water supplies company Vodokanal say no
contamination with hazardous substances have been registered in the Amur
waters as of yet, that is why they employ regular water treatment
technologies. In case pollutants concentrations go up, Vodokanal will use
charcoal filters.
The accident occurred in the Chinese province Jilin on June 28, when
floodwaters washed some 7,000 barrels with poisonous chemicals from the
plant's warehouse into the Wende River and the Sungari River. According to
information of the Chinese side, 3,000 170-kilogram barrels were filled
with trimethylchlorosilane and other hazardous chemicals, while 4,000
barrels were empty. The Chinese side assured that all barrels were taken
out from the Sungari River and the river water was not contaminated.
Contacting with water, such chemicals do not form any toxic products.
-0-ras/kud
