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SEVAN COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT AND ECOLUR'S COMMENTS
17:38 April 13, 2015
EcoLur
As it's known, the Scientific-Expert Committee on Lake Sevan
Preservation has submitted its report for 2014. EcoLur presents some
of its comments:
Comments to Point 6: As a matter of fact, the State Committee on Water
Industry made a proposal for water outlet of 240 million cum water
from Lake Sevan, i.e. additional water outlets more by 70 million
cum that the statutory 170 million set in RA Law "On Lake Sevan". The
proposal was first considered by the Scientific-Expert Committee on
Lake Sevan, which didn't and couldn't give any opinion on increasing
the water outlets by 100 million cum (as the report says), as such
proposal wasn't filed. In this regard, the violations were mentioned
in the Ombudsman's report for 2014.
Comments to Point 3: based on Point 6, Point 3 of the report shall
also be outlined, which says: For our we would like to mentation that
according to water intake schedule from Lake Sevan approved by the
Armenian Government, the last intake was carried out on 27 September,
though the governmental resolution mentions 1 September.
According to the Ministry of Emergency States, water outlets were
performed on 7 September at 6 cum/sec staring from 18:00 and 8 cum/sec
starting from 15:00. As a result, houses were flooded in Jrarat
Village, Kotayq Rgion, and Ddmashen Village, Gegharkounik Region.
Villagers suffered, and huge damage was caused to harvest.
Nevertheless, the report doesn't say anything on the opinion of the
committee on this regard.
Comments to Point 9: As a matter of fact, the committee issued two
opinions contradicting each other. One is negative issued in 2012,
the second issued in 2014 is positive taking into consideration that
risks listed in the same opinion remained the same and no measures
are planned to minimize water and soil pollution from open pit mining
and million tons of wastes containing lead, cadmium, zinc and other
heavy metals with gold concentration of 0.7-0.9 grams per a ton of
ore. All the documents, opinions and conclusions can be found here.
http://ecolur.org/en/news/amulsar/155/
http://ecolur.org/en/news/sevan/sevan-committee-chairmans-report-and-ecolurs-comments/7223/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
17:38 April 13, 2015
EcoLur
As it's known, the Scientific-Expert Committee on Lake Sevan
Preservation has submitted its report for 2014. EcoLur presents some
of its comments:
Comments to Point 6: As a matter of fact, the State Committee on Water
Industry made a proposal for water outlet of 240 million cum water
from Lake Sevan, i.e. additional water outlets more by 70 million
cum that the statutory 170 million set in RA Law "On Lake Sevan". The
proposal was first considered by the Scientific-Expert Committee on
Lake Sevan, which didn't and couldn't give any opinion on increasing
the water outlets by 100 million cum (as the report says), as such
proposal wasn't filed. In this regard, the violations were mentioned
in the Ombudsman's report for 2014.
Comments to Point 3: based on Point 6, Point 3 of the report shall
also be outlined, which says: For our we would like to mentation that
according to water intake schedule from Lake Sevan approved by the
Armenian Government, the last intake was carried out on 27 September,
though the governmental resolution mentions 1 September.
According to the Ministry of Emergency States, water outlets were
performed on 7 September at 6 cum/sec staring from 18:00 and 8 cum/sec
starting from 15:00. As a result, houses were flooded in Jrarat
Village, Kotayq Rgion, and Ddmashen Village, Gegharkounik Region.
Villagers suffered, and huge damage was caused to harvest.
Nevertheless, the report doesn't say anything on the opinion of the
committee on this regard.
Comments to Point 9: As a matter of fact, the committee issued two
opinions contradicting each other. One is negative issued in 2012,
the second issued in 2014 is positive taking into consideration that
risks listed in the same opinion remained the same and no measures
are planned to minimize water and soil pollution from open pit mining
and million tons of wastes containing lead, cadmium, zinc and other
heavy metals with gold concentration of 0.7-0.9 grams per a ton of
ore. All the documents, opinions and conclusions can be found here.
http://ecolur.org/en/news/amulsar/155/
http://ecolur.org/en/news/sevan/sevan-committee-chairmans-report-and-ecolurs-comments/7223/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress