The water condition has worsened within the Kherson port: details

In the waters of the water area of the Kherson seaport, deviations of water indicators from the norm are recorded. The situation is improving in the rivers in the south and in the Black Sea.

After the terrorist attack by the Russians at the Kakhovska HPP, experts continue to record exceeding the permissible concentrations of total iron in the Dnipro River. We are talking about the borders of the Kherson Sea Trade Port, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine reports.

Also, the content of anionic surface-active substances is increased in the water area.

At the same time, the level of chloride content continues to rise in the Ingulets and Pivdennyi Bug rivers. In water samples, 538.84 mg/dm3 and 680.64 mg/dm3 were recorded, respectively (with a norm of 350 mg/dm3).

“This trend indicates the return of indicators to the values recorded before the territories were flooded,” the agency explained.

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The level of biogenic substances in rivers in the south of Ukraine is within the limits of normative values.

Measurements of Black Sea water samples showed a gradual increase in seawater salinity. At the same time, specialists of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health discovered a cholera-like vibrio of the Heiberg group NAG 1 near berth No. 2 of the Odesa port. According to doctors, this bacterium is not the causative agent of cholera, but causes acute intestinal infections.

As previously reported by USM, all information about ships and berths in the port of Kherson is recorded.