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“If you substantiate that the harvest is toxic, ban producing any harvest”: this was Mets Ayrum Village Head Sahak Nazaryan's response to expert Seyran Minasyan.
The expert drew Sahak Nazaryan's attention to the fact that the lead concentration in 60-70% of the peach samples from Mets Ayrum and Tchotchkan communities exceeds the sanitary and health standards by 2-4 times because of Nahatak tailing dump operation.
'We have 500 ha of plough land areas and today people take loans and make investments in their land areas...If they substantiate, that the harvest is toxic, let them ban producing any harvest,' Sahak Nazaryan said.
On 17 April Mets Ayrum Village Head met with the participants of the media campaign. The objective of the media campaign is to make aware of the situation in Nahatak tailing dump, Akhtala Ore Dressing Combine, Lori Region.
'For many years an unofficial environmental and health disaster takes place here: a tailing dump incompliant with standards, increase in diseases, reduction of harvest etc,' said Oleg Durgaryan, Mets Ayrum Aldermen's Council Member, 'Community Union and Support Center' NGO Chairman. Chairman of Greens Union of Armenia Hakob Sanasaryan outlined the extent of damage caused by Akhtala reclaimed and operating tailing dumps cause and continue causing the water resources.
'Environmental Academy' NGO Chairman Greta Gabrielyan mentioned that the toxic metals available in the tailing dumps het spread into environment and penetrate into food chain together with soil, water and plants. According to biochemist Dolores Ghapantsyan, heavy metals penetrating into human organism are not digested and accumulaed in biologically important organs and generate differnet diseases, including cancer and other genetic deviations.
April 20, 2015 at 12:49