Authorities now plan to build a fence around the site - officially called Lake Ash Dump - in order to stop people reaching it. It comes after one man - 22-year-old Alexey Cherenkov - was left with red marks all over his body after swimming in the lake. Regional state prosecutors 'have organised a check in connection with mass media reports about the so-called Novosibirsk Maldives - the ash dump at TPP-5,' said an official statement. 'Our guards ask people to leave the ash dump territory,' said a spokesman. The electric blue waters of the lake are formed by a chemical reaction from the waste of the power plant.

Source: Daily Mail July 17, 2019 07:05 UTC