treatment facilities have been constructed for waters from the severniy severniyglubokiy and kaulakotsclvaara mines in the russian federation the smelter area was cleaned of heavy and nonferrous metals and new technology was introduced for processing coppcrnickel concentrate several discharge points of industrial wastewaters will be eliminated as a result of closure of mining and metallurgical production and their transfer to monchegorsk however the development of a joint environmental monitoring program in the norwegian finnish and russian border area project with the objective of ensuring reliable and comparable monitoring data was implemented from to water quality assessment in norway and finland with the russian federation is not clearcut