The level of the level of the Cheboksary hydroelectric power station will not be

“It was decided to abandon the project to raise the water level at the Cheboksary hydroelectric station to the 68th mark. The President supported us and, on the basis of the conclusion of the Government of the Russian Federation, instructed to prepare a schedule for measures to arrange a Cheboksary reservoir at an existing mark of 63 meters. The first meeting on this topic in the Russian government has already taken place. One of the technical decisions in the framework of the commission will be a low -raised dam in the Balakhninsky district.

For 30 years, a struggle has been going on, the last ten years they fought very seriously. And they won, ” says Valery Shantsev, the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region in his blog .

The events associated with the expected decision on the rise in the level of the Cheboksary hydroelectric power station from the current mark of 63 meters to 68 were monitored in three regions: Chuvashia, which traditionally expressed “for”, the Nizhny Novgorod region and Mari El, where the vast majority of the population was against.

The problem of increasing the level of hydroelectric power station to a design mark of 68 meters (at the current 63 meters, the Cheboksary hydroelectric power station does not work at full capacity) was updated by RusHydro over the past five years.

The construction of a hydroelectric power station at one time has already inflicted colossal damage to the economy of the republic: a significant part of the territory was flooded, dozens of villages were resettled. Problems related to flooding and relocation were not completely resolved. At two years ago, public hearings dedicated to the possibility of lifting the level of the Cheboksary hydroelectric power station 1,149 participants - residents of the settlements of the republic who are potentially under new flooding, expressed against it. According to preliminary estimates of experts, environmental damage from the rise in the level of hydroelectric power stations to the 68th mark for Mari El could be half a trillion rubles.

It should be noted that until the very last moment, the Chuvashia authorities using the theme of the Cheboksary hydroelectric power station as an election trump card were optimistic: we recall that the position of residents and authorities of the neighboring republic is diametrically opposite to the opinions expressed in the Mari EL.