Social media users questioned the effectiveness of sand sifting on Anapa beaches.

At Anapa's beaches, imported sand will be sifted and dried before reopening, authorities announced. Sifting and drying sand with a high clay content will not help recreate quartz sand on the beaches, Telegram users commented.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," the Kuban office of Rospotrebnadzor stated that water samples and areas where new sand was added meet the required oil product content, unlike at the Anapa beach, where imported sand has not yet been added. The swimming season in Anapa will officially open on June 1 and last until September 30. Permission for swimming in the sea will be valid in areas excluded from the danger zone designated after the emergency involving the tankers. Social media users expressed concerns about the safety of the water and sand. On May 23, oil spills were recorded in the village of Volna in the Temryuk District. Volunteers cleaned the beach.

The task force reported on the sifting and drying of sand on Anapa beaches. "This work is being carried out along the entire coastline of the resort, where new sand has already been delivered," the Krasnodar Krai task force reported.

Backfilling is carried out on the section from the lounge area on the Central Beach to the Anapka River. "Work is simultaneously underway to prepare for sand aeration—the so-called drying—from the Anapka River toward the Beach Village Hotel. The entire section will soon be leveled and sifted. The same will happen in subsequent sections," said Nikolai Zalivin, director of Anapa Resorts JSC.

Svetlana Maslova, Mayor of Anapa, announced on her Telegram channel that users will be able to begin installing beach infrastructure immediately after sifting. She wrote: "We will be opening the beaches in stages after receiving the necessary sanitary approvals from Rospotrebnadzor. Users are already submitting documents to the agency and the State Inspectorate for Small Vessels (GIMS)."

This message has garnered 37 comments on her Telegram channel. "That won't help. How deep will you drill? 15 cm? There's 50 cm of sand there, that kind of sand needs to be washed," wrote Viktor.

"There's a lot of clay. It's very sad to look at our best beaches," commented Natali Natali.

"Stop the backfilling with low-quality sand! These measures won't help the damaged beaches!" - wrote V R.

"This isn't sand.  Now Anapa doesn't have gorgeous beaches, but a clay mess," writes Lera Kuklina.

Blogger Max Anapskii published a photo of Yuri Ozarovsky after sifting the sand. "It's gotten a little better after sifting, but it's sticking together and won't dry properly. You can lay down a mat; people are relaxing. It's become fashionable in recent years to bring a tent for those who want to save on a sun lounger, but many really want sun loungers with awnings, refreshments, restrooms, and a variety of services; they've gotten used to it. And it doesn't matter what kind of sand you lie on a sun lounger on," he writes.

"It's dried out, but the stones it formed can't be crushed," Ozarovsky wrote in the comments.

"So much trouble, money, and labor. A Sisyphean task. They'll pollute the beach again. And they'll have to haul away this sand," Igor believes.

They won't sift all 50 cm. The clay will remain embedded in the sand. "Nothing good," commented Ekaterina Elnikova.

"Until today, no one on our shore even thought of doing something like this - 'drying the sand'; the sun and wind took care of that. "Are we going to dry it after every rain and storm?!" the "SSL Volunteers" asked on their Telegram channel.

Materials on the consequences of the fuel oil spills in the Kerch Strait and Tuapse have been collected by the "Caucasian Knot" on the page "Eco-disaster in Kuban." Data on the scale of coastal pollution has been collected by the "Caucasian Knot" in the reference material "Fuel Oil Spill in the Kerch Strait". 

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