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5.3.1. 300218 Kyiv Vodokanal Company
Kyiv Vodokanal Company ranks highest among the major polluting sources within the Ukrainian part of the Dnipro Basin, both in terms of individual indicators and its weighted score.
In 1999, the total volume of effluent discharged by Kyiv Vodokanal Company was 504,100,000 m3 per year. The annual volume of effluent discharged without receiving any treatment was 28,800,000 m3 per year. In 1999, the Kaniv reservoir received the following quantities of individual contaminants with effluent discharges from Kyiv Vodokanal Company: BODt (4,545 tonnes); oil products (5.70 tonnes); suspended substances (10,270 tonnes); dry residues (86,880 tonnes); sulphates (15,530 tonnes); chlorides (20,190 tonnes); ammonium nitrogen (1,007 tonnes); nitrates (5,387 tonnes); copper (3.32 tonnes); zinc (9.0 tonnes); and hexavalent chromium (4.74 tonnes).
In 2000, the total volume of effluent discharged by Kyiv Vodokanal Company was 492,000,000 m3 per year. Of that, 23,250,000 m3 per year entered a receiving water body without any treatment. The 2000 data on individual contaminant loads received by the Kaniv reservoir are as follows: BODt (4,677 tonnes); oil products (8,620 tonnes); suspended substances (7,036 tonnes); dry residue (7,036 tonnes); sulphates (15,340 tonnes); chlorides (21,330 tonnes); ammonium nitrogen (1,157 tonnes); nitrates (4,677 tonnes); nitrites (4,677 tonnes); surfactants (0.94 tonne); iron (54.12 tonnes); copper (4.22 tonnes); zinc (8.44 tonnes); nickel (8.44 tonnes); and hexavalent chromium (5.62 tonnes).
The estimated contribution of the Kyiv Vodokanal Company to the total volume of effluent discharges in the Dnipro Basin was 8.47%.
Priority contaminants contributed by Kyiv Vodokanal Company to the total pollution load entering the surface waters in the Ukrainian part of the Dnipro Basin are chromium, copper, ammonium nitrogen, zinc, BOD, nitrates, and oil products.
