The Ukrainian government has allocated 12 million hryvnia ($1.5 million) to prevent an ecological disaster in the western Ivano-Frankovsk region, the UNIAN news agency reported on Sunday.
The town of Kalush and the two adjacent villages of Kropyvnyk and Sivka-Kaluska have been declared an area of an environmental emergency situation over a threat posed by the intensive sinking of the soil in the area, which is a storage site for radioactive and other toxic waste, the news agency said, referring to the town's mayor, Mykola Nasalik.
The area accommodates more than 1,300 residential houses, several villages and also 23 industrial facilities, which requires urgent measures to resolve the environmental problems, the agency said.
"The first 12 million hryvnia have been received to resolve the problems in the Dombrovsky quarry," Nasalik said.
KIEV, June 20 (RIA Novosti)
