Amur water meet standards, as Sungari not exceed water pollution.

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KHABAROVSK, August 13 (Itar-Tass) - The Amur River meets standards on
microbiological and major physical-chemical indicators. The life and
health of people is not in danger. The monitoring, which the Federal
Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, the Federal
Service for Control of Consumer Rights and Human Welfare and the
Khabarovsk municipal enterprise Vodokanal are making, confirmed the
monitoring results.
"No excessive toxic agents in the Amur River in the Jewish Autonomous
Region and the Khabarovsk Territory were reported at 9 am on Friday," a
source in the Far Eastern regional center of the Ministry of Emergency
Situations told Itar-Tass on Friday.
Eleven water samples were taken at various parts of the river at the
junction of the Sungari and Amur rivers near the village of Nizhneleninsky
in the Jewish autonomous region to Khabarovsk over the past day. China
permitted to take samples along the whole river. The water samples are
taken at the right Chinese bank, where probably polluted waters are
flowing.
On July 28, the flood has washed away more than 7,000 barrels with
chemicals from the stocks of the chemical plants in the Chinese province
Jilin. Dozens of barrels got in the Sungari River blew up.
Hydrologists estimated that the Sungari polluted waters would reach
Khabarovsk on August 14-15 mixed with cleaner Amur waters on the left bank
of the river. Experts believe that an excessive water pollution level is
slightly probable.
However, a scope of preventive measures is being taken. Additional
points to take water samples for laboratory tests are posted in the
vicinity of Telegino and Vladimirovka near Khabarovsk.
"The drinking water quality, which the Khabarovsk municipal enterprise
Vodokanal is pumping in the water supply network, meets fully the
standards on microbiological and sanitary-chemical indicators," the
Russian consumer rights watchdog said. Vodokanal is ready for an
additional water purification procedure by absorbent carbon.
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