The Polotsk region cares more about nature than others in the Vitebsk region

The most significant contribution to water and atmospheric air purification measures in the Vitebsk region this year was made by the industrial enterprises of the Polotsk region. This is the opinion of the region's environmental specialists.

Novopolotsk industrial giants from a bird's-eye view

For example, "Naftan" began reconstructing flare gas recovery systems and the circulating water supply unit. Obsolete valves of diesel fuel storage tanks are also being replaced there, and a hydrogen sulfide utilization unit is being built. A new gas purification apparatus has been installed at SOOO "LLK-Naftan" .

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Polotsk-Steklovolokno" completed the reconstruction of the glass melting furnace. This reduced polluting emissions into the atmosphere by 5 percent. Start-up and adjustment work is also underway here at the local water treatment facilities. In 2014 alone, the enterprise invested almost 13 billion rubles of its own funds in their construction.

In addition, 4 sources of pollutant emissions were eliminated at

"Polotskvodkanal" and at the Novopolotsk bus depot No. 6. And by December of next year, OAO "Tekhnolit Polotsk" intends to move the foundry production out of the city center. This project, according to Lyudmila Kapranova, head of the department of the Vitebsk Regional Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, is already being developed:

- Similar events are very important. For example, after the introduction of new environmental protection technologies at the Polotsk locomotive depot, the emission of pollutants into the atmosphere decreased by more than 10 tons per year. The high concentration of industrial enterprises in the Polotsk region undoubtedly increases the burden on the region's environment. However, the control of the ecological situation there is also special. There are more stations for monitoring air and water quality there than anywhere else in the Vitebsk region. It is noteworthy that information is transmitted to the «Republican Center for Analytical Control in the Field of Environmental Protection» automatically in «online» mode.

Sergey GOLESNIK, SB Belarus Today