Black Sea water quality “within norm” - National Environmental Agency
The initiative comes after concerns about the quality of the waters following the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine earlier this month led to contaminated waters flowing into the Sea. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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The quality of the Black Sea waters is “within norm” based on the analysis of samples obtained last week across the western Georgian coastline, the country’s National Environmental Agency said on Tuesday.
The body said amounts of biogenic components, heavy metals and total oil hydrocarbons in the samples were “within normal range”.
The samples were taken after the Agency last week said it would monitor the quality of the water at its nine stations every 10 days to identify the “main physical and chemical parameters” including salinity, content of dissolved oxygen and biogenic elements.
Samples are sent for analysis to the atmospheric air water and soil analysis laboratory of the Agency, which “fully meets modern requirements and standards”, the body added.
The initiative comes after concerns about the quality of the waters following the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine earlier this month led to contaminated waters flowing into the Sea.
Maia Omiadze, the Head of the Georgian National Tourism Administration who has been meeting representatives of the domestic tourism sector, said the quality of the Sea water was "safe" and added "all fears" on the subject were “unfounded".
Omiadze also noted the numbers of visitors to Georgia's coastline in the ongoing summer season in her comments on the subject.
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Nino Chkhobadze, the Chair of the Greens Movement of Georgia/Friends of the Earth - Georgia, on Thursday told the Georgian Public Broadcaster the country’s territorial seas were “completely free of pollution” and not under the threat of being contaminated with waters from the flooding of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine in June.
The water quality of the Black Sea is “within the norm” based on the analysis of samples obtained last week across the western Georgian coastline, the country’s National Environmental Agency said on Friday after the meeting of the subregional group in Bulgaria.
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