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Ecological emergency zone in
Kalush: current situation and
mitigation of the consequences
Speaker: Mr. Vitalii Boot
First Deputy Minister of Emergencies of Ukraine
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Potassium Factory in Kalush.
The factory was put into operation in 1966-1968.
The factory stopped operating in October 2001
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The main product of potassium factory in Kalush is
sulfate potassium fertilizers (potassium magnesia)
and kainite (double salt of potassium and magnesium)
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Total territory of the factory is 1063,5 Hectares.
Production capacity of the factory is 499,2 thousand tons of
potassium magnesia per year.
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Since 1996 the factory was operating in the red.
The losses are about 86 thousand US dollars.
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Dombrovskyi mine pit
Total stock of potassium ore is 32 million tons
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Dombrovskyi mine pit – the southern side was exhausted
in 1982 and filled with 5,2 million m³ of brines
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Dombrovskyi mine pit.
Annually about 1,2 million m³ of brines occur here.
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Tailings dam №2 (built in 1984, total territory 48 hectares)
is filled with the wastes:
solid phase – 8 mil. m³, liquid phase – 1,7 mil.m³
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The sinkholes filled with the brines occurred in the result of
ground subsidence over the mine field.
There are 1300 living houses appeared in the risk zone.
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The outbreak of tailings dam №2 presents a big threat
to the surrounding factories of Kalush industrial zone
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Tailings dam №2 – in case of brines overflow
the dam failure and contamination of Dnister river with the brines
will happen
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