3. drying ponds for the airport

1. ponds are dried for the airport: 3 in Istanbul. 70 lake water in the airport construction site, the channel is opened and emptied into the Black Sea. However, it can be reused by analyzing waters

2. In the first EIA report prepared for the airport project, the lakes that are described as 660 hectares (6 million 600 bin m2) are described in detail but in the second report ilk 70 small sized pond ilk is discharged. As stated in the EIA report, the lake waters were channeled and started to be discharged to the Black Sea. According to the Republic, the diameter of the 3 kilometers to the depth of the 50 meter exceeds a lake between the Akpinar pasture and Imrahor water is channeled to the Black Sea with construction machines.

Hydrogeology Specialist from Gelişim University Dr. Murat Özler says that the water in the lakes is far from the economic value but it can be carried to the Terkos Lake with the analysis of the clear waters of the lake. Ozler stated that the gaps in the region due to coal and quarries have become a lake by filling with rain water in time and that the large lakes in the region can meet the 5 of Istanbul's need.

According to İSKİ officials, these waters with low quality can neither be used as drinking water nor can they be transferred to Terkos Lake.

The flow of lake water from the channel opened by construction machinery into the sea also attracted the villagers' reaction. They say they go to the sea like the fish that live in the lake.