Krasnyi Bor dump site

[8] If waters from the Krasnyi Bor pools should escape, or if the dykes should break, the hazardous waste will end up in the Gulf of Finland.

[6] In the spring of 2016, Helsingin Sanomat reported that the Krasnyi Bor dumping site was in a critical state, as the pools containing industrial waste were almost full.

The situation is dangerous for the city of St. Petersburg, too, since it takes it water supply from the Neva, below the place where the Izhora River empties into it.

[9] The head of the harmful waste from the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, Jaakko Mannio says that the fact that hazardous substances were found outside the dumping site is an indication of a leak.

[8] The problems of the dumping site were publicized by the former director Viktor Kolyakov, who was dismissed five months after the revelations.

After this, the city of St. Petersburg has threatened to have him prosecuted for “spreading unfounded information.”[9] The Russian State Prosecutor office has investigated the functioning of the dumping site in 2016.