Проблема нубаршенского кладбища ядохимикатов

Abstract

In 1982, in the landslide zone, near the Yerevan deep fault and the Jrvezh active fault (near the 4th massif of Erebuni), a cemetery of toxic chemicals 110 m long and 10-15 m wide was built, without the necessary preparation foundations of the cemetery and without a system of drainage of sedimentary water. About 600 tons of pesticides of 60 names were buried here. As a result of landslide processes and washing out by sedimentary waters of pesticides and their derivatives formed in the process of their decomposition, it can be argued with a high degree of probability that the latter penetrated into the artesian basin of the Ararat Valley. To identify the picture of pollution, we conducted a study of the soil near the cemetery and a nearby residential area, found heptachlor in concentrations exceeding the MPC 27 times, 4,4'-DDD 1264 times, 4,4'-DDT 1315 times, alpha-HCCH 9 times, and methoxychlor was found in quantities 19.628 mg/kg. The environmental threat from the Nubarashen cemetery to Yerevan and Armenia remains unresolved. A number of strategic proposals have been made in the work.