Anapa completed removal of sand contaminated with fuel oil from beaches
Removal of sand contaminated with fuel oil from the main territory of beaches in Anapa was completed. This was reported on January 16 in the operational headquarters of the Krasnodar region.
"On all sections of the coastline the collection of contaminated soil continues. All small mountains of sand, which remained on the shoreline, will be sifted to separate drops of oil products from the ground," said Oleg Chelyadinov, deputy chief of the Krasnodar regional emergency rescue service "Kuban-SPAS".
He pointed out that the removal of contaminated sand will no longer be carried out, as it is inexpedient and ineffective. The amount of equipment on the main part of the shoreline is also being reduced, as the work has been successfully completed.
Earlier in the day, the Krasnodar Region Operational Headquarters reported that fragments of fuel oil were found on the bottom of the Black Sea at the base of the piers along the beaches of Anapa. Kuban-SPAS second class rescuer Alexander Fetchinkov shared that due to the low water temperature, the fuel oil is quite dense, which simplifies the cleaning process. According to him, "you can take it with your hands and mold it."
"Izvestia" on January 15 showed how EMERCOM specialists laid a protective rampart around the tanker. A technical access road was built to the stern of the vessel within a day on the instructions of the head of the ministry Alexander Kurenkov.
January 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked the volunteers, who are engaged in cleaning up the fuel oil spill. In addition, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that volunteers who are cleaning up the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait are provided with medical assistance when they need it.
The tankers Volgoneft-212 andVolgoneft-239crashed in the Kerch Strait due to bad weather on December 15, 2024. The incident resulted in a spill of oil products. 27 people were evacuated from both vessels, one person died. On the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a working group was set up to coordinate the work to eliminate the consequences of the emergency.
The press service of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation said on January 2 that 2.4 thousand tons of oil products had fallen into the Black Sea after the crash of the tankers. Later, on January 3, an oil slick was found in Sevastopol at the entrance to Balaklava Bay. The next day, the fuel oil moved northward along the Crimean coast, and Sevastopol declared a regional state of emergency.