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The water levels of Lake Sevan stood at 1900.42 meters as of December 25 this year, a 0.05m lower compared to the same day of 2016 (1900.47 metres), the Armenian minister of nature protection told reporters on Monday.

Artsvik Minasyan detailed that the water intake level from the lake for the irrigation purposes was set up to 270 million cum this year. The water intake from the lake totaled to some 266.757 million cubic meters as of 18 December, which is 99.622 million cubic meters higher than last year's figures.

As of 18 December, over 109.290 million cum water flew into Lake Sevan through Arpa-Sevan tunnel since the beginning of this year, which is 10,559 cum lower against the figure of the same day of 2016.

According to the minister, the transparency of the lake makes 13 meters this year.

In 2017, some 78.1 hectares of littoral flooded forests areas of the “Sevan National Park” SNCO have been cleaned in 2017, of which 64 hectares have been cleaned by the SNCO through the state budget funds, and 14.1 hectares – by physical entities under the contracts signed with the “Sevan National Park”.

Overall 2064.17 hectares of land have been cleaned in the period of 2005-2017.