In the Irkutsk region, a criminal case was opened against the owners of the mini-hotel who merged waste to Baikal

In the Irkutsk region, a criminal case has been instituted on the fact of pollution of Lake Baikal, the owners of the Baikal mini-hotel are suspected of violating the rules for the appeal of environmentally hazardous waste.

"According to the investigation, the place of unauthorized placement of sewage sewers was in the forest belt beyond the territory of the Baikal mini -hotel. According to experts, these waste belongs to the fourth category of danger and pose a threat to significant harm to the environment," the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the region for the region.

The case was opened on the proposal of the prosecutor's office of the Irkutsk region, made based on the results of the audit. Specialists of the regional unit of Rosprirodnadzor, a branch of the Center for Laboratory Analysis and Technical Dimension in the East Siberian Region and the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Irkutsk Region were assessed to assess the damage caused. The pollution was recorded in the village of Khuzhir, not far from the Baikal Sarai Gulf. Currently, investigators interrogate the hotel workers.

Meanwhile, experts believe that Baikal’s pollution is systematic in wastewater. According to Vesti. Irkutsk , in several coastal villages and the city of Baikalsk there are not a single normally working treatment plant. The environmental prosecutor's office indicates that after the processing of liquid waste in the resulting water, the standards for many indicators remain exceeded.

“All treatment facilities work in violation of the established requirements for the standards and quality of wastewater treatment. In other words, everyone drops the water that cannot be dropped,” explains the West Baikal environmental prosecutor Alexei Kalinin.

Pollution also fall into the lake from ships. There is not a single specialized station for waste pumping in Baikal. The prosecutor's office initiated cases, made ideas, sent claims to the court, a number of meetings took place in the government of the Irkutsk region. However, so far all hopes for solving the problem are related to the prospects for the implementation of the federal program for the protection of Lake Baikal.

At the same time, environmentalists and scientists warn, the discharge of household waste to Baikal has already led to the fact that the lake began to overgrown with algae. Because of these algae, natural foods of omul and seals are dying, which leads to a bias of the entire lake ecosystem. According to the director of the Limnological Institute, Mikhail Grachev, the problem requires an integrated approach, which implies, inter alia, the restriction on the use of household chemicals in Russia with the content of phosphorus.