Fight for a watering water

The Governor of Sevastopol presented Putin Putin a water supply project of the city, which will deprive 30 thousand Crimeans of the Crimean

The deficiency of fresh water in the Crimea, which arose after Ukraine’s overlapping of the North Crimean Canal, with a dry summer in the summer of 2020, designated himself especially acute. The reserves of the main reservoirs - Simferopol, partisan, Ayan, Chernorechensky - by the end of August - early September were from 12% to 38%. In a number of areas of the peninsula, an hourly water supply regime was introduced: from 3 to 6 hours a day. In some villages, water is served three times a week.

Two weeks before the elections, September 2, 2020, the acting governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Podvozhaev presented President Vladimir Putin a project designed to “solve” the problem of water supply of the hero city.

“There is a project that, in principle, is conceived in Soviet times. They returned to him several times in subsequent years, but he was never implemented. This is a transfer of part of the water from the Kokkozka River to the Chernorechensky reservoir. The Kokkozka River is the River of the Mountain System, and in the flood, somewhere from January to March, about 15 million tons per month of excess water go to sea. This water could be assembled and transferred to the Chernorechinsky reservoir. This would solve all the problems of Sevastopol with reliable water supply, ”said Razvozhaev.

In his speech, he twice emphasized that he was talking about “excess water”, which is not used by residents of Crimea. And he added that 3.8 billion rubles are needed to implement the project.

Vladimir Putin reacted enthusiastically. He said that he would “draw up an appropriate order to the government,” and that the pace and terms of “this joint work” need to be agreed with the federal authorities.

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The project of the transfer of water from Kokkozki to the Chernorechensky reservoir was already repeatedly discussed on the peninsula and caused protests not only of the population, but also by the authorities of Crimea.

The reason is simple: unlike the Government of Sevastopol, ordinary Crimeans and republican officials believe that no “excess water” in Kokkozka, by no means a deep river - 3-5 meters wide. The transfer for the needs of the half -million Sevastopol, they indicate, will deprive the water of 12 villages in the Bakhchisarai district, which is 30 thousand people.

Like four years ago, residents are ready to go outside.

Frozen, but not excluded

In 2014, and then in 2016, the Sevastopol authorities proposed to create a Sokolin reservoir in the reserved zone in order to artificially intercept the flood waters of the coclon. For 1.75 billion rubles, it was supposed to build a 28-kilometer tunnel for the pipeline, according to which 15 million cubic meters of water will be transferred to the Chernorechensky reservoir. “Project” reported that officials paid the contractor, Sevstroyinvest LLC, 18 million rubles , but soon the prosecutor's office found out:

The developed documentation is only sketches, the cost of which is a maximum of 3 million .

From the second contractor, Mosstroykvadrat, the government of Sevastopol recovered a penalty for an unfinished project. The baton was accepted by the company "OEK" - its work was estimated at 59 million. However, according to the vice-governor of Sevastopol Vladimir Bazarov, the contract with her was not concluded.

In 2016, protests began in Bakhchisarai and the villages of the Belbek Valley, according to which the coclones flow. At a public hearing, thousands of inhabitants voted against water transfer.

“No option that infringes on the rights of local residents, or violates environmental safety in the Republic of Crimea, will not be adopted and I will not be supported either,” said the head of the republic Sergey Aksyonov.

As a result, the transfer project was criticized by the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Sergey Nazarov and the head of the Directorate of the Federal Target Program (FCP) of the development of Crimea and Sevastopol Andrei Nikitchenko. The project was frozen, but not excluded from the FCP.

Do you see the project? And he is

At a meeting with President, Mikhail Razvozhaev took out a cloth project. He allegedly proposed a “more high -tech” method of water transfer from the point of view of the ecology - to build a dam by the bucket water intake, then lay 60 kilometers of water supply and, using pumps from January to March, pump flood water of cocc: with March. In the case of presidential approval by construction for 3.8 billion rubles. The military will be engaged. The consent of the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, said Razvozhaev, already. In addition, the acting proposed to repair the water supply networks of the region.

On the air of the NTS channel, the head of Sevastopol, however, specified that the project itself is not yet, its development is supposed to be completed only in January 2021. According to Razvozhaev, the head of the Crimea previously supported the project. The press service of Sergei Aksenov “New” explained that the government of the republic “did not instruct” to engage in the project to be transferred and that this issue is under the jurisdiction of the Russian government. When asked whether the head of Crimea really approved the initiative of Razvozhaev, the press service did not answer.

The interlocutor of the “New” in the Government of Crimea said that the proposal of the governor of Sevastopol “to put it mildly, caused surprise among the republican authorities”.

“It was necessary to go to the president at first, but to the residents,” he said.

Mikhail Razvozhaev himself perceives the criticism of the project in hostility. On the air of the STV channel, he stated that the project was “comprehensively thought out”, but “is still finalized”. “The project that we now propose is not the project that was in Soviet times, it is based on these research, but this is another project,” the governor assured.

The design of each object leaves the trace: a state procurement should be carried out, a contract is concluded and funds from the budget are allocated. And all this should be published in the public domain. However, it was not possible to find any traces of the new project “Novaya Gazeta”. Mikhail Razvozhaev did not answer our calls. The governor’s press service also did not answer questions. The director of the Sevastopol Vodokanal Nikolai Peregud refused to name the contractor and the amount of the contract, saying that without the written permission of the city government, "he would not say anything."

The source of the "New" in the government of Sevastopol admitted that no new studies were the possibility of water transfer from Kokkozz to the Chernorechensky reservoir was carried out by scientists. Vice-Governor Vladimir Bazarov confirmed this: there is no project, and it must be developed, but when it happens, it is not yet clear, just as the sources of financing, the manager of budget funds, the terms of the project, the deadlines for determining the contractor and the start of construction are unknown.

The hydrobiologist Grigory Prokopov, a teacher of the Crimean Federal University, in a conversation with the New Gazeta noted that in Soviet times, they refused projects to transfer water from coclonics due to inappropriateness.

“In fact, the volume of the water that the authorities declare is simply nowhere to take,” says the scientist.

- It is necessary to take the river, create an additional direction, so that it is preserved during the construction time. How these works will be done in densely populated areas is a question. The implementation of ambitious statements “we will build with the help of the military before the New Year” seems unlikely. Usually, design and scientific research have been occupied by at least a year. The process is divided into three stages. The first is an assessment of the modern environmental condition, the second is an analysis of possible effects on the facility during construction, the third is recommendations for reducing negative effects. A sad example is already in the Crimea-a pipeline for the transfer of water from the Biyuk-Karasu River to the Simferopol reservoir. There are already a lot of water supply. Yes, the work was done quickly, but how will it end? The level of groundwater is reduced, after a couple of months we will get a valley without water.

"Neglect of the interests of the population"

- It will not be just a protest. I think there will be organized protests throughout the Belbek valley and in the territory of Sevastopol, because it is an obviously coming environmental disaster, ”says Oleg Kotikov, a resident of the village of Sokolin, a resident of the village of Sokolin. - The fact that Razvozhaev stated is incompetence and ignorance of the situation. The president is stated that every flood month can be taken at 15 million cubic meters of water. Pravozhaev simply does not know that the annual drain of the coccaulus is a maximum of 36.5 million cubic meters. Where to get so much water from? Now the situation is visual:

The coccino is empty, the Belbek is almost dry. This is neglect of the interests of the population of Crimea.

Especially considering that alternative decisions by the authorities of Sevastopol are not considered.

A resident of the village of Freight Konstantin Andreo says that before the Belbek River was more full -flowing, there were more sources and springs near it.

- If the water supply did not work, we could get water in the spring. But now they all disappeared. And if you still take water from the coclonian, the inhabitants will not have enough water, ”he says. - Along Belbek there are gardens for 13 kilometers, there are several agricultural enterprises that take water from the river. Each house has a land plot with a garden, pets who also need water.

Residents of the Belbek Valley are united on social networks, begin to collect signatures under the second appeal to the president since 2016, a local resident Natalya Kutler told a “new” resident. According to her, the matter is not only in the absence of water from local residents, but that due to the implementation of this project there is a risk that the ecosystem will be destroyed.

It is not a fact that coclarus for several years will not go underground through karst voids.

The deputies of the villages of the Belbek Valley also made a request to refuse to refuse to implement the project. They sent the corresponding appeal to the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation.

Senator from Crimea Sergey Tsekov, in a conversation with the New Gazeta, said that he categorically against the transfer of water from Kokkozz to Sevastopol and suggests that the project is unlikely to be implemented.

“The villages of the Belbek Valley live at the expense of this water, and its transfer to Sevastopol will lead to serious environmental consequences,” the Senator said. - In 2016, the project was rejected. A new administration comes, new people, they are concerned about the serious problem of the water supply of Sevastopol. And they can be understood. And they, apparently not knowing the details, again [this project] were voiced. Well, let's transfer the water, so what? Let's leave the inhabitants of the valley without water. It is necessary to repair the water supply system, look for additional sources, but not at the expense of the water that is used in the area with tens of thousands of inhabitants.

He doubted the possibility of picking up drains from coclon and deputy minister of economic development of the Russian Federation Sergey Nazarov. According to him, the prognosis of the filling of the river "can be very different." “We do not know what winter will be, how the drains will be filled. And this is already called not even forecasting, but fortune -telling, ”the official said in an interview with RIA Novosti - Crimea.

"It will be just lost water"

“Due to the winter-spring period, the floods are replenished with karst underground sources, which in turn fill the wells and wells,” says Grigory Prokopov, a chedrobiologist of the Crimean Federal University (KFU). - Kokkozka, turning to Belbek, takes out sand and pebbles on the northern coast of Sevastopol for millions of years, forming the beaches. The beach strip reduces the risk of collapses and landslides of the red clay coast that sea waves undermine. But if the floods of the coclaries are taken away, it (beach strip) will decrease twice as fast, and after about ten years the beaches can disappear. And this is not to mention the Red Book Fauna of the River - trout, freshwater crabs.

According to the scientist, the consequences for nature can be the most destructive, and two rivers without flood water will simply drag on silt. The head of the Crimean branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Tarasenko agrees with the colleague.

- In this territory there are many karst voids and there will be large leaks, moreover, there is a seismoactive zone. These are just lost water and spoiled nerves of many people. It would be better not to do this: the water is coming, it fuel both wells and underground waters. This water works in the benefit of the already established ecosystem of the Belbek River and the central part of the Bakhchisarai district. There is a certain threat if a significant amount of water will climb, that one of the most picturesque and fertile valleys of Crimea will begin to experience moisture deficiency.