Environmental agency claims Black Sea water “within the norms”

The National Environment Agency of the Ministry of Environment and Agriculture of Georgia on Tuesday said it had checked the quality of the Black Sea water on July 6 and 10, and claimed it was “within the norm”. 

The agency said it had determined 59 chemical and other parameters, including the concentration of 13 heavy metals, total petroleum hydrocarbons, 16 polyaromatic hydrocarbons and other physico-chemical parameters.

The agency has been monitoring the water quality of the Black Sea once every 10 days, at nine stations, following the Kakhovka Dam explosion in Ukraine in early June and subsequent fears on the pollution of the sea.