The Romanian Water Administration went to the scene after receiving several reports of a change in the color of the water. Contaminants may have entered a gunpowder stream after a mine shaft collapsed in Sunday's 2.9-magnitude earthquake — the mine had not been operating in 50 years — through which the stream also passes. Specialists took samples from several sites in the Cebes-Kourosh branch, and their analysis is still in progress.
0.5 cubic meters of water per second flows from the mine tunnel, and the pollution concentration in Sebes-Körös is diluted by 10-12 times, however, its effect extends to the Alsólugos reservoir, he wrote. Disguise. He pointed out that “specialists will continue to monitor the situation until the phenomenon disappears and the water reaches normal quality limits.” In her entry Water Authority.
According to biophysicist and researcher Peter Hantz — who studies the microbial ecosystems of water and mud in mine streams —
Due to neglect of cleaning the water of closed and operating mines, the concentration of zinc, copper, nickel, aluminum, cobalt, lead, mercury, uranium and other materials in some streams and rivers reaches several times the permissible values.
According to Hants, heavy rains can wash such quantities of “contaminated silt from ponds, tailings ponds or sedimentation ponds that lead to stunning environmental disasters.” Additionally, he explained, irresponsibly closed mines — as well as operating mines — are “slowly causing chronic, destructive pollution.”
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