Environment Minister Mircea Fechet on Tuesday participated in Constanta in a sampling of the Black Sea water amid pollution worries after a ship accident in the Kerch Strait, informs Agerpres.
Fechet said that although the risk of pollution of the Romanian coast is minimal, the concern exists, and the authorities must be prepared.
"The reason why I came to Constanta today is to participate together with my colleagues from the Dobrogea-Litoral Water Basin Administration in a Black Sea water sampling mission. This monitoring will last four or five days and samples will be taken, in this process, from 18 or 16 points in the Black Sea, from a depth of 5 metres, from a depth of 20 meters and from 12 miles offshore. It is a standardised procedure; they make a lot of determinations; the most important, in the context of the recent ship accident, is the one related to the content of hydrocarbons in the Black Sea water. Because we are worried. And, to the extent that there are problems - although specialists who have done a lot of mathematical modelling so far say that the chances of pollution waves reaching the Romanian coast are minimal - we must be prepared," Fechet said.
He added that in the aftermath of the sinking of two ships in December 2024 in the Kerch Strait, there are areas where birds and dolphins have died due to water pollution with a synthetic product specific to the former Soviet Union, and beaches have been affected.
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