Environmental Aspects of Former Soviet Military Sites in Georgia Georgia: Country Profile Environmental Aspects of Former Soviet Military Sites in Georgia Presentation by George Kolbin Ministry of Environment GEORGIA Environmental Aspects of Former Soviet Military Sites in Georgia Environmental Aspects of Former Soviet Military Sites in Georgia NATO CCMS Workshop on REUSE AND CLEANING OF FORMER MILITARY SITES May 27-29 2002, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic Former Soviet Military Bases in Georgia: Key Figures Key Problems 300 former Soviet military sites RADIATION OIL PRODUCTS Air bases - Different types of sources left on former - Soil contamination Tank divisions Soviet military Sites - Water pollution Missile forces sites - Both military servants and civilians injured Navy 4 military bases HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS OTHER PROBLEMS Akhalkalaki - Rocket fuel remained in storages -Soil erosion - Unregistered explosives and weapons -Damaging of historical sites Batumi Gudauta Vaziani Environmental Aspects of Former Soviet Military Sites in Georgia Environmental Aspects of Former Soviet Military Sites in Georgia key problems: key problems: RADIATION HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS Type of found sources: Rocket fuel remained in Caesium 137 storages on former air base in western Georgia Strontium 90 Radium 226 Unregistered explosives and weapons left on the Cobalt 90 territories of many sites Americium 241 197 radioactive sources were found on the former Soviet military sites in Georgia since 1997 1 Environmental Aspects of Former Soviet Military Sites in Georgia Environmental Aspects of Former Soviet Military Sites in Georgia key problems: OIL PRODUCTS Actions undertaken by the Government ′ Commission established for inventory of toxic materials on the former soviet military sites ′ Part of rocket fuel was removed from the former military air base in Meria, western Georgia ′ Found radioactive sources were removed from the sites and Pollution of soil and safely stored water cased by leakage of fuel and lubricants is ′ Project for assessment of common for most of the military sites was elaborated military sites in Georgia Environmental Aspects of Former Soviet Military Sites in Georgia Environmental Aspects of Former Soviet Military Sites in Georgia IAEA ASSISTANCE GERMAN ASSISTANCE INITIATIVE ′ Programme initiated to address the problems on the former Within the framework of special technical cooperation programme International Atomic Energy Agency is military areas assisting the government of Georgia since 1997 by providing funding, necessary equipment and training. ′ Georgian experts trained in Germany In result hundreds of radioactive sources were found in both military and civilian areas. Assistance was provided ′ Experience with data collection and management shared for those injured by radioactive sources. ′ Joint experts meetings held in Georgia Environmental Aspects of Former Soviet Military Sites in Georgia Environmental Aspects of Former Soviet Military Sites in Georgia LOOKING FOR FUTURE COOPERATION DP - Concept Georgia is open for cooperation with all parties interested in solving the common problems of cleaning and reusing of A L A D I N former military sites M E M U R A Umwelt 2 Environmental Aspects of Former Soviet Military Sites in Georgia THANK YOU George Kolbin Deputy Head Department of Environmental Policy Ministry of Environment NATO CCMS Coordinator for Georgia M. Kostava St. 68a Tbilisi Georgia Tel +995 32 334082 Mob: +995 99 556510 Fax: +995 32 943670 Email: [email protected] [email protected] 3.