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From June 11 to July 17 2020, RA Environment Ministry conducts a public consultation on Sevan Water Basin Management Plan (2021-2027). Due to COVID 19, the meetings will be online (filling out questionnaires developed within the program, electronic and telephone communication, etc.).
"Development of Sevan Water Basin Management Plan, Part 2: Thematic Summary" was prepared by the Consortium of EU Member States with the financial support of the European Union. The document gave large and small Sevans an extremely changed and "worse than average" status. "Since 2002, as the lake levels have risen, about 1,000 residential buildings, tens of kilometers of roads, 4,000 hectares of forest have been flooded leading to hydromorphological changes in the lake coastal zone and causing pollution of the lake with organic matters," the document says.
The proposed measures do not address these issues. Meanwhile, the priority for waterlogging Lake Sevan is to continuously raise the level of the lake to restore the hypolimnion layer and save the lake from irreversible loss. Therefore, the number one task is to prepare the shores for the rising of the lake and to reduce the water intakes from the lake as much as possible, especially in the conditions of global warming.
The document does not address the measures aimed to restore the livelihood of fish stocks as an agent digesting the organic material for the lake.
The document explains the lack of specific measures for Lake Sevan by the technical non-feasibility of achieving the goal in a short period of time, the complexity of the sources of influence on the shores of Lake Sevan, and the difficulty of separating individual water bodies (affected zones) from other parts of the lake.
June 16, 2020 at 16:39