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Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources announces results of monitoring in Kur and Araz rivers

14 October 2009 13:21 (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 October to study the level of pollution of the Kur and Araz Rivers and their branches, the ministryâ€™s press service told APA. Compared with the third ten-day of September, the flow rate in the Kur River in the first ten-day of October reduced by 1 cbm/sec and made up 217 cbm/sec.

The monitoring revealed that biogenic substances exceed the maximum permissible concentration in the Kura River as a result of pollution of the water with industrial and domestic wastes in Georgia and Armenia.

Phenol pollution and copper compounds exceeds MPC by 3 times, copper compounds by 4 times in the Shikhli-2 area, phenols exceeded MPC by 3 times and copper compounds by 6 times in the Aghstafachay River, phenols and copper compounds exceeded MPC by 2 and 5 times respectively in the Aghstafachay Reservoir.

According to the monitoring, the flow rate in the Araz River, which borders on Armenia, made up 160 cbm/sec. Phenols and copper compounds exceeded MPC by 3 and 4 times respectively in Horadiz area of the River, copper compounds and phenols exceeded MPC by 2 times in Shahseven I, copper compounds exceeded MPC by 3 and phenols by 2 times in Bahmantapa.

Oxygen concentrations in equilibrium with the air range from about 5.59 mg/liter to 6.75 mg/liter.