The trees are dead, the grass isn't growing. Near the Nizhny Novgorod landfill, where the landfill leachate spilled last winter, the forest has died.
In December in the forest Gorodetsky districtA slurry spilled onto the site below the Citymatic landfill. Environmentalists called it landfill leachate, while landfill management said it looked like "snowmelt." Now It revealedthat in the area where the “melted snow” flowed, the forest died.
"All the trees are dead and dry. Even the grass isn't growing. That's what happened from the leachate discharge." a village resident states Skorodum Mikhail Penkal, Showing dead birch trees on video, he claims that thousands of trees have been destroyed.
A local resident Galina adds: swallows have disappeared, although they had previously built several nests on her property. Locals claim that the same landfill leachate is polluting Uzola River, which flows into the Volga.
An employee of JSC Citymatic told reporters that "will not answer questions" and sent it to the press service. They promised to give a written response, but didn't.
Back in April, Rosprirodnadzor inspectors confirmed that landfill leachate was leaking into the soil beyond the landfill site. The day before, the Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod Region aroused criminal case under Part 4 of Article 261 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the destruction or damage of forest plantations.
Video: from the program "By the Way"