The resort in Lake Baikal continues to actively drain chemicals and feces in the lake, scientists found out

Employees of the Limnology Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Lin SB RAS) discovered 98 polluted soil flows flowing from the resort village of Listvyanka into the water area of ​​Lake Baikal, the site "Science in Siberia" reports.

These are domestic drains, which are the product of the activities of numerous tourist cases and hotels on the coast of the lake. According to scientists, there are practically no engineering structures in the village of Listvanka that would provide the necessary degree of wastewater treatment. The samples taken in the samples recorded numerous indicators of the chemical and microbiological, including fecal, pollution, the report said.

Limnologists have celebrated negative phenomena in the lake ecosystem since 2011, but to date, these changes have occurred at such a large -scale level that scientists are talking about the ecological crisis in Lake Baikal. Along the coastline, the spirogir -filamentous algae unusual reservoir continues to develop, freshwater lips perish at depths (unique natural filters that play a huge role in the ecosystem, cleansing the water in the lake. - Note Newsru.com ), and cyanobacteria settling on their bodies that produce cessitoxin dangerous to humans.

Experts suggest that the reason for this was the anthropogenic impact on the lake and uncontrolled economic activity on its shores. So, phosphorus, domestic drains are a nutrient medium for spirogira and can provoke its distribution, is noted in publication.

The problem of pollution of household and industrial waste in the world in the world, which is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, scientists and eco -defenders have been trimming for more than a year and achieved some success in this regard.

After contacting the Academician Chairman of the INC Academician Igor Bychkov about negative environmental changes in the water area of ​​Lake West-Baikal Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office in November 2014, a check of all treatment of wastelands on the southwestern shore of Lake Baikal began. The prosecutor's office of Buryatia organized a similar check on the northeastern coast of the lake.

In March 2015, the West-Baikal prosecutor’s office filed five lawsuits with a demand to eliminate violations in the work of sewer treatment facilities (goats) in the villages of Listvyanka of the Irkutsk region, as well as Angasolka, Kultuk, Slyudyanka and the city of Baikalsk of the Slydyansky district of the region.

In October, at the request of the prosecutor’s office, the court in the request of the prosecutor's office ordered the local Aquatrans LLC to stop polluting Baikal with poorly cleaned wastewater. The companies ordered the work of the treatment facilities of this city, which is one of the tourist centers of the region.

Meanwhile, experts expressed the opinion that Baikal's pollution by wastewater is systematic , and local media reported that in several coastal villages and the city of Baikalsk there are not a single normally working treatment plant.

The West-Baikal environmental prosecutor's office also stated that all treatment facilities work in violation of the established requirements for the standards and quality of wastewater treatment, "in other words, everyone is not dropped by the water that cannot be discarded."

For many years, the Baikal cellulose-paper plant, which was closed at the end of 2013, was considered the largest source of pollution of the lake for many years.