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The spokesperson for the Klaipėda Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Viktorija Raštutytė, informed the SNB that the decision to terminate the investigation of the deceased author was taken on 12 August.
The mayor of the Kretinga district, Antanas Kalnius, stated that the owner of the plot where the source of contamination was found had died for several years.
“It simply came to our knowledge then. Nobody lives on that plot, somehow there are not even heirs, the situation there is interesting,” said the head of the BNS municipality.
The pollutants spilled into ponds near the Salanto River in early March this year.
Initially, the source of the contamination was unknown: engineering network plans were examined, well covers were removed, networks were inspected, and then it was established that contaminants could flow from buried tanks in the private home. .
In search of the source of contamination, officials excavated 77 tanks containing 28,000. 750 liters of petroleum products, as well as 20 tanks with metal parts, 48 batteries.
At that time, nearly 150 cubic years of oil-contaminated liquid was pumped from the city’s ponds.
According to the mayor of the Kretinga district, Antanas Kalnius, the municipality has spent around 128 thousand LTL on various pollution abatement works. euros.
