Toxic substances threaten the environment

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Wednesday, 03 February 2010

There is a chance that this year utilized in the tombs, which is about 19 tons of obsolete and hazardous plant protection products. Land in these magazines will be a rehabilitated. For this purpose need about 700 thousand. - informed the Regional Directorate of Environment. The end of March will be submitted to the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management requested the money for this purpose. Rendering the company will be selected in the auction - said a spokeswoman for the environmental directorate in grandson. If granted, the removal of storage of chemicals could be held this year. Out-dated plant protection products for many years are in landfills and threaten the environment. Has not been at their disposal. Only in recent months, the Regional Directorate of Environmental Protection conducted an inventory of underground storage facilities. "The task was to assess the specific business type and quantities of hazardous waste, the substrates for many years in farms - added. Hazardous chemicals are packaged in plastic containers, glass bottles, are in the form of liquids, powders. "In and estates in addition to the well-known specialists have discovered additional holes with significant amounts of hazardous substances" - informed. In all studies have found warehouses exceeding permissible concentrations of pesticides and contamination of land. "And in addition to farms and tests confirmed elevated levels of nitrate in groundwater near the tombs, which may indicate a negative impact on the quality of their groundwater" - adds grandson. If the National Fund for Environmental Protection grant money, chemicals will be brought to the surface, it will also remove the infrastructure of tanks along the ground, which is in contact with the concrete bottom. Chemicals will be packed into barrels with an extra special, and loaded into the incinerator of hazardous waste. Place after the landfill will undergo rehabilitation. Money on disposal and remediation to come from the National Environmental Protection Fund, which - as reported by The Regional Directorate of Environment Protection in Bialystok - the goal is 45 million $.

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