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Ministry of Ecology and Natural resources announces results of monitoring in Kura and Araz rivers

16 June 2009 12:50 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Kamala Guliyeva â€“ APA. National Environmental Monitoring Department of the Azerbaijanâ€™s Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources conducted monitoring for the first ten-day of June to study the level of pollution of the Kura and Araz Rivers and their branches, the ministryâ€™s press service told APA. Compared with the third ten-day of May, the flow rate in the Kura River in the first ten-day of June reduced by 138 cbm/sec and made up 338 cbm/sec.

The monitoring revealed that biogenic substances exceed the maximum permissible concentration in the Kur River as a result of pollution of the water with industrial and domestic wastes in Georgia and Armenia. Phenol pollution exceeds MPC by 2 times and copper compounds by 3 times in the Shikhli-2 area, phenols exceeded MPC by 2 times and copper compounds by 3 times in the Aghstafachay River, phenols exceeded MPC by 2 times and copper compounds by 3 times in the Aghstafachay Reservoir.

According to the monitoring, the flow rate in the Araz River, which borders on Armenia, made up 65.2 cbm/sec. Phenols and copper compounds exceeded MPC by 3 and 2 times respectively in Horadiz area of the River, copper compounds and phenols exceeded MPC by 3 and 2 times respectively in Shahseven I, copper compounds exceeded MPC by 3 and phenols by 2 times in Bahmantapa. Ammonium ions exceed the normal level in some points. Oxygen concentrations in equilibrium with the air range from about 4.31 mg/liter to 7.30 mg/liter.