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2010 July 6   10:35

The prosecutor's office orderes a local shipyard to build treatment facilities

Following the results of ecological inspection of the facilities of 33rd Ship Repair Plant OJSC (of Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region) and implementation by the company requirements of environmental legislation in the Baltiysk and Kaliningrad Bay waters the city district court ruled the Shipyard must take steps for implementation of measures aimed at prevention of air and water pollution and emission of hazardous substances. The enterprise should construct treatment facilities, the regional Prosecutor’s Office reports citing the courts materials.

The ecological commission survey had established the shipyard operating at the harborage of Kaliningrad Bay and the Baltic Sea failed to comply with with the requirements of the Russian Water Code. The commission confirmed the shipyard’s production wastes, oil liquids, contaminated waste water leaked through 6 sewer outlets right into the waters of the Gulf of Kaliningrad and the Baltic Sea, inflicting harm to the environment.

Besides, the Baltiysk 33rd Ship Repair Plant released each year over 414,539 tons of harmful substances, the Prosecutor’s Office said.

The decision of the City Court upheld the prosecutor demands are satisfied in full.

The 33rd Ship repair Plant of the Baltic Fleet was created in 1945 on the production base of Pillaussky plant. The enterprise is located in Baltiysk of Kaliningrad region, on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea. The shipyard’s pier and docks stand next to the sea canal leading to the ports of Kaliningrad

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