Article​​​​​​​ 138. Ensuring the protection of water and water objects from pollution, contamination, and depletion in water protection zones

In the water protection zones of water objects and adjacent territories, the following measures are implemented to ensure the protection of water and water objects from pollution, contamination, and depletion, as well as to improve the condition of waters and the regime of their use, including:

technological measures aimed at the construction of water circulation systems for industrial water supply, and sewage treatment and neutralization facilities;

measures for the disposal of sewage sludge in sectors of the economy;

measures for organizing technological processes that ensure the stable operation of treatment and neutralization facilities at industrial and agricultural production facilities;

measures for organizing technological processes that exclude the formation of polluted sewage;

forest reclamation and agrotechnical measures that ensure the strengthening of the banks of water objects, their protection from erosion, waterlogging, and silting, and also the stabilization and improvement of the natural regime of water flow in water objects;

irrigation and reclamation measures that provide for the construction of water management facilities that ensure the existence of favorable conditions for water use, as well as, if necessary, the clearing of the beds of rivers, canals, and collector-drainage networks, and the bottom of ponds, lakes, and reservoirs from mud and sediments;

sanitary-technical measures that ensure the disinfection and neutralization of sewage discharged into water objects, as well as the sanitary protection and beautification of territories occupied for economic activity;

organizational measures that provide for the transfer of enterprises, buildings, and structures that have a negative impact on the condition of waters outside the water protection zones or their closure;

measures that provide for the planting of seedlings and tree and shrub plantations for landscaping without the use of pollutants to have a positive impact on the environment.

The costs of implementing the measures provided for in the first part of this article in the water protection zones of newly constructed water objects are included in the cost of construction of these water objects.

The technological and sanitary-technical measures to eliminate the pollution of a territory, which are developed in connection with the establishment of water protection zones in existing water objects, are carried out at the expense of the funds of the organizations that are responsible for this pollution, as well as citizens.