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The Department of Environmental Protection (AAD) received a notification about dead fish floating in Nevėžys from J. Janonio Street to the Panevėžys border early Sunday morning. Specialists immediately went to assess the situation and found that 54 bites and a scab had died in unclear circumstances.
The damage to nature caused by this event amounts to almost 6,000 euros.
“It is not advisable whether it is a big loss or a small loss. Every fish is part of nature and is important to it,” said Ieva Jakupkaitė, Head of the Panevėžys Environmental Protection Inspectorate of the AAD.
The reasons for the death of the fish in Nevėžis have yet to be clarified. River water samples were taken and the results should be available within a week.
“Fish shouldn’t naturally fall into the water, so there was a reason. If it is contamination and what it is, we are now investigating; it usually takes at least seven days for the bacteria sample to grow,” said the chief. .
Even a small amount is dangerous
According to I. Jakupkaitė, the source of contamination could not be identified immediately, because after the invasion of feces or chemicals, damage to nature does not occur immediately. It is likely, according to the interlocutor, that the pollutants reached the water body in Panevėžys the day before the fish died.
“Nevėžis is now very desperate, our colleagues followed him in rubber boots. There is hydrological drought, the river level is even 70 cm below the critical limit. In such conditions, even if a small amount of pollutants enters the river, the concentration of contamination will remain high ”, says I. Jakupkaitė.
Not the first disaster
This is not the first time that Nevėžis crossing Panevėžys has been contaminated. However, such severe damage to the river is not detected every day.
Last summer, hundreds of fish died in the Nevėžys and Panevėžys district, near the town of Papušiai. This event was initially related to the activities of the Aukštaitijos vandenys company, as an ecological disaster was observed near its main treated wastewater treatment plant. However, the environmentalists who conducted the investigation did not identify any water contamination. The question of why so many fish were lost actually remained unanswered. It is believed that at that time they did not survive due to natural conditions: following the river, the oxygen in the water decreased.
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