Rosprirodnadzor filed a lawsuit against the owner of a landfill in Novorossiysk after the waste burned for over a month.

Rosprirodnadzor aroused An administrative case was opened against Terra-N LLC for failure to comply with environmental protection requirements when handling industrial and consumer waste. The case stemmed from the results of an inspection following a fire at a landfill.

During the inspection, the agency's specialists discovered serious environmental violations near the landfill: a stream Nameless and the river Ozereyka were contaminated by leachate flowing from the landfill through the forest towards the village Vasilyevka.

"NeMoskva" wrote about the landfill on the mountain Shchelba, which caught fire on March 13, couldn't put out the fire more than a month. All this time, residents of nearby villages complained The smell of burning and the feeling of being unwell due to exceeding the maximum permissible concentrations of carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide. And toxic liquids formed during the extinguishing of the landfill fire flowed through the Ozereyka River. got into to the Black Sea.