Simulation of pollution propagation in case of breakdown of Inkor and Co storage dams

Sloviansk Sloviansk

Station #1300038 Kazenyi Torets Kazenyi Torets

Kazenyi T oret s

Station #9704 Station #9704 Kazenyi Torets Kazenyi Torets

Kramatorsk Kramatorsk

Siverskyi Donets

Station #1300012 Station #1300012 Siverskyi Donets Siverskyi Donets Station #1300079 Station #1300079 Siverskyi Donets Siverskyi Donets

Soledar Soledar

Station #1300040 Station #1300040 Bakhmutka Bakhmutka

Siversk Siversk

Station #1300106 Station #1300106 Siverskyi Donets Siverskyi Donets

FIGURE 18.

Simulation of pollution propagation in case of breakdown of Inkor and Co storage dams

Druzhkivka

Station #1300034 Station #1300034 Kryvyi Torets Kryvyi Torets Station #1300034 Station #1300034 Kryvyi Torets Kryvyi Torets

Station #9705 Station #9705 Kryvyi Torets Kryvyi Torets

Station #1300189 Station #1300189 Kryvyi Torets Kryvyi Torets Station #9703 Station #9703 Bakhmutka Bakhmutka

Bakhmut Bakhmut

Kryvyi Torets Avdiyivka Coking Plant Research and Production Association “Inkor & Co”

Bakhmut Agrarian Union

Kostiantynivka

Station #1300188 Station #1300188 Kryvyi Torets Kryvyi Torets

Station #1300216 Station #1300216 Zalizna Zalizna

Water bodies affected by accidents at the storage facilities of industrial enterprises 1-3

Station #1300179 Station #1300179 Kryvyi Torets Kryvyi Torets

Station #1300202 Station #1300202 Kryvyi Torets Kryvyi Torets

Exceeding the maximum allowed concentration (MAC) in water bodies during breakthrough of the northern dam of Storage Facility 1 at “Inkor and Co” (worst-case scenario) Phenols Sulfates

Chlorides Ammonium

Toretsk Toretsk

2

Station #1300215 Station #1300215 Bakhmutka Bakhmutka

Station #1300174 Station #1300174 Bakhmutka Bakhmutka

Horlivka

1

Surface water monitoring stations

Manual stations of the Siverskyi Donets Basin Administration of Water Resources and Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center Automated stations of the Donetsk Regional State Administration

Source: Averin D., graphic representation, 2021 / Titov K. et al., simulation results, 2020.

TERMINATION OF BASIN COOPERATION

The political and armed conflict gave rise to territories where the situation is not controlled by the Government of Ukraine and complicates not only data collection and monitoring of the environmental situation (see Section 2), but also the actual solution of the water issues in the complex transboundary Don basin. Whereas before 2014 even interstate cooperation was pursued and fully implemented in the basin, today not only cross-border cooperation with the Russian Federation is impossible, but also any constructive interaction with the self-proclaimed administrations in non-government controlled area.

Thus, with few exceptions in the field of water supply, the scope of planning and implementation of measures in the Ukrainian part of the Don basin are limited not only by the borders of government-controlled territories, but, unlike most transboundary basins in Europe and the world, by practical impossibility of cooperation with the rest of the basin. This significantly reduces the potential efficiency of measures to improve the ecological status of the Don basin, especially to address long-term challenges that require a strategic and comprehensive approach across the basin.