TRCHKAN WATERFALL AGAIN IN THE HIGHLIGHT

ARMINFO
Thursday, June 14, 11:30

Trchkan Waterfall again in the highlight

In a letter to Armenia’s Environment Protection Minister Aram
Harutyunyan the Trchkan Initiative says that Nov 3 2011 the Government
proclaimed Trchkan Waterfall as a specially protected area and was
going to give it a passport of hydrological monument within two months,
i.e. by Jan 24 2012.

The deadline has long expired, with no passport issued so far. So,
the environmentalists urge the Ministry to inform them what has been
done to this end and whether it has assessed the damages caused to
the waterfall by the Robshin company.

Trchkan became widely known in the autumn 2011, following the greens’
actions of protest against the project to build a water power plant
near the waterfall.

The conflict between the greens and the contractor of the project,
Robshin, ended in the Prime Minister’s decision to give Trchkan the
status of a specially protected area.