Malaya Herota

What always prevents us from achieving bright milestones? Insidious America, Arctic climate, global conspiracy? But no, all... nonsense.

Like the one in the title. No, I didn't come up with this. I feel so weak. If I encountered this in someone else’s text, I would consider it a tasteless author’s invention. I didn’t believe it, even after receiving a letter from the “Ecological Watch for the North Caucasus”, signed by Andrei Rudomakha, I went online... It’s all true.

There is such a city as Sochi. Adler is nearby. There is the Imereti Lowland - the site of the (possible) construction of an Olympic sports complex. And a few kilometers away is Malaya Kherota. One of the rivers that flows in the Adler region, from Silver Lake to the Black Sea. Hydronym comes from the name of the letter of the Russian alphabet. During the Caucasian Wars in Adler

The tenth company of the Navaginsky regiment was quartered. This company was designated by the Roman numeral X, similar in spelling to the Russian letter “X” - “X company” - which gave the name to the river:

Herota, with emphasis on O.

Once upon a time they used to fish in the river, but now it’s hard to believe. The fact is that the Adler Municipal Solid Waste Landfill (MSW) is located in the river valley.

"...The maximum amount of pollutants enters the river at the very first meter of its flow. This is a regional landfill for household and industrial waste. This is not just a landfill for household waste, which is not technologically constructed, but it is simply a place where garbage, household waste is dumped waste and partly industrial. The main problem of this landfill is that it is located in a landslide area, on the slope of a mountain, and intense rains lead to constant sliding of the soil, and the entire landfill, into Lake Serebryanoye and the Kherota River,” she described the situation in 2001. local ecology graduate student.

The landfill, proudly called the “landfill”, existed since 1949, at the end of Soviet power it was mothballed, but in the late nineties it “earned” again. Progress cannot be stopped! Now, according to the conclusion of the Sochi Geoecological Center, the content of harmful substances in water exceeds the permissible norm by 90 times - you can forget about fish. But this is something else: a few tens of meters from the river a “natural” body of water has formed, which the locals call the “Black Sea”. The landslide has already crushed one house and is hanging over a dozen houses of local residents. What will happen if this “Black Sea” spills out into Malaya Kherota, reaches the Adler beach, the real Black Sea?

Andrey Rudomakha writes: “At any moment, if a large volume of precipitation falls in the river valley or a tornado, which often happens on the Sochi coast, this landslide can turn into a mudflow, which will lead to human casualties, sweep away hundreds of houses, destroy communications and carry out huge volumes of toxic substances accumulated here over 50 years into the Black Sea. The danger of such a development of events is aggravated by the presence of the artificial lake Serebryanoye above the landfill, the condition of the dam of which is not properly monitored.”

Local authorities were planning to move the landfill to another, equally “suitable” location, although a landfill-free waste disposal program had already been developed for five years. But the Sochi administration is dragging its feet on this too; environmentalists suspect selfish interests here: transporting waste to landfills is a fabulously profitable business for certain circles. Waste processing plants are not being built or planned in Sochi, meanwhile the landfill is growing. Little Herota is turning into a big... problem. Could be a disaster.

Sochi's Olympic concerns do not affect this in any way. That is, perhaps, if it had not been for the presentation in Guatemala, they would have started talking about the landfill in full voice. But why stick out all sorts of... well, you understand what I mean.

The regime of general show off, as well as general opposition to the insidious enemy, is not conducive to the daily and patient establishment of order in one’s home. For petty bosses, throwing dust in the eyes of foreigners is just an excuse to fool the bigger bosses. And “Little Herota”, being distributed everywhere, leaves an indelible imprint on the beautiful whole.

I hope we will have the strength to return from global problems (missile defense, Chavez, Kosovo, and so on) to putting our own house in order. Perhaps he will have the strength to deal with Malaya Herota.

Actually, this is the main problem of the coming year. Both for the “party in power” and for the opposition. Because both the gossip about the “successor” and the cloning of “united opposition candidates” are nothing more than vanity of vanities. Until one or the other takes up the “problem of small rivers.”