Blowing up of Kakhovka HPP: Institute of Protection of Soil expects migration of heavy metals with dust
As a result of the draining of the Kakhovka reservoir, wind erosions may occur on its territory, which may cause the migration of heavy metals with dust.
Source: Roman Palamarchuk, deputy head of the Institute of Protection of Soil, during a round table in Military Media Center
"After the irrigation of the flooded soil stops, the migration of salts to upper [soil – ed.] horizons will start, and it will pose a threat to ecology in the future.
As for the territory of the Kakhovka reservoir, which will soon be basically dried up, wind erosion will occur there, which will cause the migration of heavy metals with dust," Palamarchuk forecasted.
Yet these forecasts so far are not precise and the scale of the disaster is impossible to predict. For instance, there is no information at all coming from the Russian-occupied left bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast.
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Background:
- The occupiers blew up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) on the night of 5 June.
- The water has flooded the territory of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts. There were attempts to evacuate people and animals from the city of Kherson. At the moment the water level is gradually lowering but a number of settlements remain flooded.
- Fish kills, destruction of several natural parks, water becoming unfit for consumption and desalination of the Black Sea are all part of the aftermath of the blowing up of the Kakhovka HPP.
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