Legal and Technical Possibility Assessment of Eliminating Accumulated Damage to Environment by Arsenic Waste from Mining and Processing Industry

Abstract

The possibility of accumulated environmental damage liquidation by arsenic wastes of the mining and processing industry is considered using the example of two facilities located in the Irkutsk Region and the Trans-Baikal Territory. Brief information is provided on the results of liquidation of a focus of arsenic pollution in the territory of the city of Svirsk. Presented are the current environmental situation in the Municipality of Svirsk and the work planned by the Government of the Irkutsk Region to rehabilitate the territory subject to prolonged anthropogenic impact. Photographic materials and results of monitoring researches of the territory polluted with arsenic in settlement Vershino-Darasunsky of Trans-Baikal Territory are resulted. Based on the current technological and regulatory framework, it is possible to eliminate the accumulated damage in the village of Vershino-Darasunsky.