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Thu, 18 Jul, 2013 12:00:19 AM
More researches recommended environmental pollution inspection
FTimes-STT Report, July 18
Senior Researcher Antti Räike at the press conference in Helsinki on Wednesday. Photo - Lehtikuva
Finnish researchers have underscored the need for further inspection into Baltic Sea water whether seepage or release of chemicals from Polish industries have already made the sea waters risky.
 
They also found the syndrome of leakage of chemical from Polish Phosphorus and Gypsum sites on the Baltic coast that might have polluted the waters.
 
The research team of the Environment Institute at a press conference on Wednesday placed its research report prepared based on samples taken from the Poland part of the sea in July and said that the huge chemical release in the sea put impact in the water.
 
They said they traced chemical-polluted waters near Ostropothnia area in Finland.
 
File picture of Baltic sea. Photo - Str / Lehtikuva
The report said that leakage developed at least one of the two Polish phosphorus and Gypsum sites in Gdańsk on the Vistula River delta releasing huge amount of chemicals into the sea, a government press release said.
 
Two separate studies so far also pointed out that that huge amount of phosphorus was released into the sea due to the leakage at Gdańsk site. One study estimated 200 tnnes while other estimated 500 tonnes.
 
The Finnish consulting firm Pöyry conducted the studies based on the data provided by the Polish authorities.
 
“Phosphate and phosphorus concentrations are very high in the Dead Vistula beside the phosphor-gypsum stack," Research Scientist Antti Räike of the Institute said.
 
He said that the dead Vistula is a cut-off channel of the river Vistula which does not flow towards the sea regularly and weakening the mixing and dilution with the Baltic. It made hard to estimate the total outflow into the sea.
 
Räike says enhanced actions are needed at the Gdańsk site to reduce the environmental impacts.
 
Senior researcher at the a press conference. Photo - Lehtikuva
The report also said that samples found near the Police site showed lower amount of phosphorous release.
 
The authorities in Finland and Poland are working together on investigating the sites after the incident in June as the Finnish Environment Minister Ville Niinistö and his Polish counterpart Marcin Korolec agreed to extended cooperation.
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