Machine with bags of fertilizer. Archive photoVLADIVOSTOK, January 15 The Governor of Primorye introduced a high alert regime in the Nadezhdinsky District and the Khorolsky Municipal District due to improper storage of pesticides and pesticides in these territories. of the regime of high alert for the authorities and forces of the Primorsky territorial subsystem of the unified state system for the prevention and elimination of emergencies. It is indicated that the introduction of the regime is associated with improper storage of pesticides and pesticides in two districts and «the presence of a threat of harm to public health and the environment.»Scientists did not find a leak of pesticides from the Kozelsky landfill in Kamchatka «Introduce a high alert regime … Determine the boundaries of the territory where an emergency may occur, within the territorial boundaries of the Nadezhdinsky district and the Khorolsky municipal district,» the resolution says. The document instructs to prevent the threat of an emergency . The Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment of Primorye was appointed responsible. Last spring, a number of mass media in the Krasnoyarsk Territory reported that about 900 tons of hazardous pesticides from the landfill near the Vostochny Cosmodrome of the Amur Region would be buried at the local Serebristy test site. Checks began, later the landfill operator announced the refusal to place waste there. According to the authorities of Primorye, the court decided to burn pesticides from the Amur region near Vladivostok, the leadership of the region said that it was against such a decision and would not allow environmental damage. The examination of the waste located near Vladivostok has not yet been completed, the authorities reported. According to the regional authorities, about 300 tons of waste were brought to Primorye, they are located at two sites in the Nadezhdinsky and Khorolsky districts. The situation caused a public outcry, local residents recorded a collective appeal to the authorities with a request to prevent waste incineration. The management of the districts terminates the lease agreements for the sites where the waste is now located. The court suspended the activities of Sistema LLC on a land plot in the Nadezhdinsky district. The authorities reported that at the end of October it was planned to start removing waste from Primorye. In mid-November, they had not yet been sent, as the check was ongoing, the government of the region clarified. In December, the Vladivostok interdistrict environmental prosecutor Roman Steblyanskikh told RIA Novosti that the environmental prosecutor's office found many violations when checking the handling of pesticides from the Amur Region, the waste disposal company Sistema » submitted.
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