On the coast of Zelenogradsk threw hundreds of pounds of paraffin

The oily substance can be observed along the coast from the village of Sokolniki to the Curonian Spit. Separate pieces of wax reach 50 centimeters in diameter. Hides whether a threat to the white substance and how they got to the shore, recognized our correspondent Kirill Popov.

Kirill Popov, the correspondent:

On the beach you can now collect amber, and wax. It easily get to sculpt any shape. Material in abundance. Paraffin are scattered at every step. Separate the pieces reach the size of a fist. Smells like fuel oil.

Clots substance resembling frozen foam, everywhere. From the village of Sokolniki to the Curonian Spit. Paraffin is enough for a small candle factory, joking Nikolai Satalkin.

Nikolai Satalkin, Chairman of the horticultural society "the Wave":

Is 6-8 pounds, I've collected literally 10 minutes. Well, maybe for 50-100 meters. The touch is oily and viscous. Early sea never threw so much paraffin.

Nicholas decided to fight against pollution. Local residents fear that the wax melted in the sun and oil will soak the sand. Experts claim that with the Kaliningrad climate this option is not possible. But the coast may be affected from an aesthetic point of view.

Sukova Elena, senior researcher of the laboratory of marine physics of the Atlantic branch of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Russian Academy of Sciences:

It does not melt. Of course, it will be caked with sand. It will be covered in mud. But a lot of the fine fraction. She directly can melt. Can stay on the beach. It covers film algae thrown, bottles thrown out.

White substance shore of the Baltic sea is covered for the first time. This is the fourth time in 9 years. Despite the smell of petroleum, the substance is not toxic. Of the impurities, except that the sand and fine amber.

Edward Calkin, head of Department for civil defense and emergency Zelenograd city district:

— It could be washed ballasts on ships, tankers. Also could be reset a long time ago somewhere else. Now a storm it brought. Officially, no one knows.

Now environmental authorities of the region are checking. The wax is not dangerous for tourists. But threatens the health of small children who can try it out. Therefore, the beaches are clean. From the coast took about four hundred kilograms of the substance.

Kirill Popov, Andrew Long

This is not the first case. For example, the news from 15.06.11 from the Kaliningrad region (Zelenogradsk), published on Kaliningrad's Internet portal. exclav.ru:

On the beaches of Zelenogradsk and the sea makes the blobs of material of unknown origin. In appearance, white colour and barely distinguishable smell of this substance similar to paraffin. What this substance, the exact answer will give only a specialized laboratory. Waiting for him, scientists are sounding the alarm, and Supervisory service still check the coast.

In winter, these pieces could have passed for ice. The sea methodically gets rid of foreign substances. Employees of Rosprirodnadzor map of pollution and take samples of substances for analysis.

MAXIM GREBENYUK, DEPUTY HEAD OF THE KALININGRAD DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ROSPRIRODNADZOR IN THE NORTHWESTERN FEDERAL DISTRICT:

"We recorded the intensity of pollution of the coast from the border with Poland to the border with the Republic of Lithuania, on the Curonian spit. We applied in the previous year to their colleagues in Lithuania, the same in Poland, but, unfortunately, there are recorded such contamination. The source was not detected. According to some reports, this substance was used in the oil and gas industry, the development of relevant fields."

Officials are confident that the wax. A similar case was recorded a year ago, and then the tests showed exactly this result.

ALEXANDER KHRISTOFOROV, CORRESPONDENT:

"Officials of Rosprirodnadzor suspect that at the bottom of the Baltic sea in areas of the Southeast coast, the entire paraffin deposits, but they are not of natural origin, but rather man-made. Therefore, the appearance of paraffin on the beach not accidentally, pollution of the sea is clearly the work of human hands".

TATIANA BULATOVA, CHIEF SPECIALIST, EXPERT OF DEPARTMENT OF SUPERVISION ON THE SEA IN THE KALININGRAD REGION:

"We have developments on this issue. Appealed to various organizations, to determine in this period, held the court, perhaps, had any discharges from vessels. But so far no results, monitoring is carried out and I think that is the problem we will solve."

The size of the clots from one inch to forty. Often, piece weight is kilogram. One vacationer gifts of the sea interesting, while others avoid them for 100 meters. It is unknown how States that take in hand.

EDWARD CALKIN, HEAD OF DEPARTMENT GO AND CHS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OF THE MUNICIPALITY "ZELENOGRAD DISTRICT":

"The second day we study the properties of that substance. Now, the public regulatory authorities aware of the situation, studying, because we'll still have to remove it manually."

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»