Armenia pollutes Kura River

  05 July 2016    Read: 2088
Armenia pollutes Kura River
National Environmental Monitoring Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources announced the results of the monitoring held in the third decade of June checking the level of pollution in trans-boundary rivers Kura and Araz and their trans-boundary tributaries, AzVision.az reports.
In the third decade of June, the water flow in Kura, compared to the third decade of the same month, decreased by 214 cubic meters per second and was 313 cubic meters per second.
As a result of contamination in Armenia and Georgia, the content of the biogenic matters in the Kur River exceeded the norm by several times in accordance with the results of the monitoring.

The content of phenols exceeded the maximum permissible concentration by over 3.6 times at the Shikhli-2 site, 3.5 times in the Agstafachay River.
Meanwhile, the phenols exceeded the maximum permissible concentration by 3.1 times in the Agstafachay Reservoir.

At the same time, the phenol content exceeded the maximum permissible concentration by 2.8 times at the Horadiz, 2.7 at Bahramtepe and 2.3 at I Shahsevan-1 sites of the Araz River.

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