Oleg Mitvol, deputy director at Federal Environment Monitoring Service (Rosprirodnadzor) inspects Moscow yacht clubs.
Photo: Yury Martyanov
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Mitvol Threatens to Flood Moscow Cottages
Oleg Mitvol, deputy director at Federal Environment Monitoring Service (Rosprirodnadzor), has lashed out at owners of cottages built ashore the Moskva-river. Mitvol threatened to flood the cottages in spring by opening locks to the river, pointing out the respective agreement with the Federal Water Resources Agency had been made already. Sources with Mosvodokanal said although the locks might be really opened to clean the river bottom, no inshore premises would be affected.
Rustam Khamitov, who heads the Federal Water Resources Agency, and Oleg Mitvol, who is the deputy director at Rosprirodnadzor, decided Monday, October 10, 2005, to jointly clean the Moskva-river outlet in spring. Mitvol said the locks will be opened to put on speed of the river flow and specified that the method had been regularly applied up to 2000. According to Mitvol, once the locks are opened, the water will flood cottages illegally constructed ashore of the Moskva-river ever since.
In Mosvodokanal, they think different. This method to clean the river bottom is applied after winter, when the reservoir has amassed enough excess water. But no one knows what winter we will have this year, so any talks about cleaning are premature, said Alexey Belov, head of the water supply operation department at Mosvodokanal, pointing out no cleaning had been carried out in the recent years exactly because of the poor spring tide. In any case, we will hardly have global flood, the official is sure.
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All the Article in Russian as of Oct. 11, 2005
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