The area of contamination in Norilsk after a spill of diesel fuel From a reservoir within the TPP-3 amounted to 180 thousand square meters, informs the press service of the Prosecutor of the Krasnoyarsk territory.

The emergency Thursday morning was visited by the Head EMERCOM of Russia Evgeny Senichev and the Governor of Krasnoyarsk region Alexander USS.

last Friday, the CHP-3 of Norilsk in the end, the destruction of the tank leakage of about 21 thousand cubic meters of diesel fuel. According to Norilsk Nickel, to the disaster led warming in the permafrost, which shifted the supports under the fuel tanks.

for inexact data of the authorities, the bottom of the tank sprung a leak because Of sagging of the soil. From the tank poured out about 20 thousand tons of diesel fuel, some of it went to the local Creek and stream in the Barn.

within Krasnoyarsk Krai imposed a state of emergency at the Federal level.

on Wednesday at the meeting with the President the head of the Ministry of emergency situations Evgeny Senichev summed up that data about the incident arrived to rescuers only after two days. Because of this, Vladimir Putin ordered law enforcement agencies to evaluate the performance of local bureaucrats.

Head Rosprirodnadzora Svetlana Radionova, for his part, said that the maximum allowable concentration of pollutants in rivers, anywhere a diesel fuel after the accident, exceeded ten thousand times.



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