Lake Sevan – In the Area of the Mutational Effects

This year, planned to leave the shore of Lake Sevan 19 year-old Anna could not take place. Anna not only has not itself rested on the lake, but all my friends and relatives strongly advised not to swim in it.

The reason for the posts, transmits electricity at a voltage 35 000 volts, which remained under water for a segment length of 15 km from Martuni to Zolakar due to rising water levels in the lake.

“I was numb when our group reached the coast of Lake Sevan. All along the coast in water, where thick iron electric poles. In 3-4 meters from the shore, about 100 meters apart from the water sticking these terrible electric column “- says Anna. She notes that before that they were very far from shore.

This year, in accordance with these press-service nuclear power plants, due to increasing lake, under water, the remaining 58 supporting pillars of overhead transmission lines. 38 of them – the metal poles supporting overhead power lines that transmit electricity under a voltage of 35 thousand square meters. According to the same data, 21 of them moved.

“Work on the transfer of the remaining towers are planned to carry out in parallel with an increase in water level” – in answer to the question of the newspaper Ankakh “reported from the plant, but does not explain why the remaining water in the supporting pillars were not transferred on time.

Head of substations “Martuni” Varazdat Asikyan said that the work has been underway for several days and planned to be completed until spring.

On the question electric columns erosion and weakening fundamentals, Asikyan said that it takes several years, and the pillars in the water so long will stay.

Odaka, according to Professor Department of Physics, Yerevan State University Samvel Mkhitaryan is a quick process: “Water washes out the bearing causing it becomes unstable. If the waves become strong, then the columns with a weakened pillar will fall. ”

Short stay in the water electric columns Mkhitaryan did not regard as dangerous: “If this is a stable operating system, the posts are not descended from corrosion and their support is not shattered, it’s not dangerous. In this case, the risk is the same as if they were on the field.

One accident and Sevan will be uninhabitable

According to rough calculations, the radius of exposure is twice the height of the pillar. ”

Mkhitaryan much more dangerous believes that high electric columns were in the resort area. He notes that near power lines ionize the air. “If the ionization is high, start mutational events”, – says Mkhitaryan.

To Lake Sevan, in the opinion Mkhitaryan, much more dangerous organic substances that remain in the water: “Columns, sooner or later would get out of the water, and organic matter – hardly.”

Mkhitaryan proposes to construct a pumping station and a hose to direct air bubbles in the water in those places that remain under water to aquatic life doesn’t feel oxygen starvation. “Vegetated areas should be subjected to aeration, it is the same as enriching aquarium water with oxygen. It will also help cleanse the water. Sevan fish accustomed to living in oxygen-rich cold water, and now they are choking, “- says Mkhitaryan.