Tuapse residents criticized the state of the beaches and the uncollected bags of fuel oil.
Tuapse residents have noted oil pollution on the coastline near the Yuzhny boarding house and demanded that authorities clean the beaches. They also reported that bags of collected fuel oil have still not been removed from Vesna Beach.
As reported by Kavkazsky Uzel, there are drops of oil products on the rocks at Primorsky Beach and the wild beach between Nebug and Tyumensky. An ecologist who traveled the coastline of the Tuapse District noted that the beaches of Lermontovo, Agoy, Dzhubga, and Shepsi are clean. He also noted the low number of tourists on the beaches.
All beaches except the city ones have been cleared of oil products, and work continues there, the Tuapse administration announced, reporting on final preparations for the resort season. The opening of 69 beaches, including 11 public ones, was announced. On June 9, the head of the district clarified that this summer in Tuapse, 66 beaches, including 15 public ones, will welcome vacationers. Volunteers continue to clean up fuel oil in Tyumensky and Nebug. Oil-soaked booms washed up on Primorsky Beach in Tuapse, and the beach of the former Vesna boarding house remains contaminated, despite the authorities' announcement that the resort season has opened.
A video of the coastline, which local residents claim is contaminated with oil, was published today by the Telegram channel "My Tuapse," which has over 57,000 subscribers.
According to local residents, after the cleanup of Primorsky Beach, part of the shore remains contaminated with oil products. They note that traces of fuel oil are visible from Vesna Beach, and the situation is "even worse" further away.
Judging by the published video, more than a hundred meters of shoreline are contaminated. The coastal zone is also contaminated with a black substance.
"The beach near the Yuzhny boarding house, a question for the administration: will anyone clean the beach again? Primorsky Beach was checked for fuel oil, everything was cleaned, but the rest of the coastline will remain 'black'? This filth starts at Vesna, and it gets worse from there," the post states.
In another post from the same Telegram community, local residents complained that bags of fuel oil had never been removed from Vesna Beach. According to them, the bags emit a terrible smell and could end up back in the sea during a strong storm.
"Good afternoon. We still have bags of fuel oil on Vesna beach, from the bridge towards Volny, they haven't been removed yet... we don't know who to contact," the post reads.
On May 1, a fire broke out at the Tuapse sea terminal after a drone attack. It was extinguished on May 2. This fire was the fourth in Tuapse since April 16. Earlier, on April 24, after booms broke due to rising water levels in the Tuapse River, an oil spill occurred into the Black Sea. On May 27, another attack on the seaport was reported. A series of attacks on Tuapse's oil infrastructure has led to environmental consequences, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Fires and "oil rain": the main points about the environmental disaster in Tuapse".
A regional emergency regime is in effect throughout the Tuapse District . For information on emergency assessment criteria, response levels, structures, and resources for eliminating the consequences, please refer to the Caucasian Knot's fact sheet "Emergency Situation Regime (ES)".
Caucasian Knot has compiled materials on the consequences of the fuel oil spills in the Kerch Strait and Tuapse on the page "Eco-Disaster in Kuban". Caucasian Knot has compiled data on the scale of coastal pollution in its fact sheet "Emergency Situation Regime (ESR)", titled "Fuel Oil Spill in the Kerch Strait"."