Ecology ministry monitors country's rivers

The National Monitoring Department for Environment of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources (MENR) implemented the next monitoring for the purpose of review of the pollution level of Kura and Aras transboundary rivers, as well as transboundary tributaries of them.


decade of June, decreasing 131 m3/sec in comparison with the third decade of May. According to the results of the monitorings, the amount of bio substances in Kura river was considerably more than norm due to domestic wastes and slops of industrial enterprises discharged directly to water bodies without purification from the territories of Georgia and Armenia. Phenols and copper compounds as specific contaminants in the water composition exceeded the admissible turbidity level.

In this regard, phenols and copper compounds surpassed the admissible turbidity level thrice and quadruple respectively in Shikli-2 settlement, thrice in Agstafachay settlement, while phenols were within the norm, and copper compounds surpassed the admissible turbidity level fourfold in Agstafachay reservoir. According to the outcomes of the monitorings conducted in the first decade of June, phenols and copper compounds outnumbered the admissible turbidity level twice and thrice in Horadiz settlement, four times and thrice in I Shahsevan settlement, while twice and quadruple respectively in Bahramtapa settlement regarding Aras river.
The water oxygen regime fluctuated within the sanitary norm in all settlements containing 5.45-6.60 mg/l.


/eco.gov.az/