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Residents of the Vitė neighborhood are attacking the municipality, environmentalists and various institutions with reports of black dust from Klasco. Those who find discolored, black windowsills, dust in the house, and grass in the yards tell the cars.
“We have been visiting the company for many years, stop working or move to other areas so as not to carry loads near residential houses. In some places it runs 50 meters from the fence. We have a problem and we ask you to eliminate it as soon as possible “Said Tomas Meškinis, a resident of the quarter, during a remote meeting on Monday.
According to Raimundas Grigaliūnas, head of the Klaipėda department of the National Health Center, the dust on the windowsills is related to the company’s cargo.
“Firstly, the load must be organized in such a way that the dust does not spread from the loading place. Hundreds of studies can be done, but if a calf powder is a source of contamination, if management is done indoors, that problem will continue. It is necessary to take cardinal measures for the company, either so that there is no load at all, or the dust does not spread beyond the fence, “says Raimundas Grigaliūnas, Head of the Klaipėda Department of the National Health Center. According to him, Until it is fixed and the white cars parked in the quarter during the night continue to turn gray, investigating the residents’ houses will be useless work because the reason is clear.
Hundreds of studies can be done, but if a calf powder is a source of contamination, if management is done indoors, that problem will continue.
Violeta Gutauskienė, Chief Specialist of the Environment Division of the Municipality of Klaipėda, assured that a letter had been prepared to the Ministry of Environment and the Department of Environmental Protection regarding the suspension of Klasco activities. The woman said she receives a wide range of complaints, both calls and letters, people and visits to the municipality.
“As far as it is said, nothing changes, it is still the same problem,” he said.
A spokesperson for the Environmental Protection Agency said in a remote meeting that more and more officials were rotating in Klasco. There were also those who came from Utena. Unbeknownst to the company, the drones were airborne to see how the handling was done and if measures were used to reduce environmental pollution. The specialists observed the loading jobs and filmed the jobs from the port side and filmed the jobs. According to the representative, as recorded, the measures provided in the pollution permit are used. The only way out is to tighten the legislation.
During the meeting, Klasco representatives assured that, according to the measurements of the stop, there were no excesses. Additional measures have been introduced: shift managers monitor contamination and visually with the help of cameras.
Port Authority, p. Director General Vidmantas Paukštė stated that the company had applied to the Environmental Protection Agency for a request to clearly indicate whether the contamination conditions of the issued permit were violated.
“We do not have a clear answer today. We are all talking about contamination, but are the conditions being violated or not? Specifically, I have not heard of any violations. Once there are conclusions, we will have an answer on whether there are violations or not. We will be able to talk specifically about what to do to avoid this, ”said V.Paukštė.
J. Andriejauskaitė / 15min photo / “Klasco” is still in the spotlight due to the burden of Klaipeda’s black houses.
Pollution and odors.
Residents of the Vitė neighborhood complain not only about pollution, but also about odors. On Monday, the meeting also spoke about the fact that air pollution with volatile organic compounds in the quarter was almost double the allowed levels. Due to the smells, two companies were beaten with their fingers: Klaipedos Nafta and Cargo Terminal.
These ensured that the complaints spilled out a few days after the handling was carried out. Head of Cargo Terminal Technologist Gintaras Gvezdauskas stated that on April 30. Gasoline was unloaded from the tank truck at the terminal and MTB was started on the same tank truck on May 1. On the days in question there was a recovery system, and no chemicals such as contamination were loaded and not available at all.
April 30 and May 1, air tests were conducted at Sportininkų st. 44 houses. Volatile organic compounds were studied: benzene, oxen, ethylbenzene, xylene. Volatile organic compounds were found to exceed limit values. The permissible level of benzene was said to be 8 and to be mg / cubic meter. per meter, with a tolerance of 5 mg. Klaipėda Municipality submitted a request to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Environmental Protection to begin the inspection.
Jurgita Lengvytė, Klaipėdos Nafta’s Environmental Safety Manager, questioned whether the samples were incorrectly taken in the study commissioned by the municipality. They were taken only for 2 hours and the results obtained were compared with the daily rate. Furthermore, in those days, the concentration of volatile organic compounds in the territory of Klaipedos Nafta itself, as the woman said, had not even come close to the limit values.
The municipal specialist V. Gutauskienė stated that the samples were analyzed in the laboratory of the company Orlen Lietuva and that the test was carried out correctly.
Quarter resident T. Meškinis emphasized that company research always says the same thing: there are no excesses, but residents smell, get dizzy, find it difficult to breathe, so they have to close windows or run away from home. Inhabitants of Melnrage also experience odors.
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