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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Red Hungarian Sludge

The toxic sludge in Hungary has reached the Danube River and E.U. officials see it as a major environmental threat.
           
            A few days ago, in Hungary, a toxic red sludge burst from the reservoir in which it was being stored. The toxic sludge is the byproduct of aluminum refining. As the sludge flowed through the Hungarian terrain, it terminated. Soon, it entered the Danube River (3rd largest in Europe) and flowed to Romania. E.U. officials fear this to be one of the greatest environmental disasters in Europe in the past 30 years. Hungarian officials deny it to be any tremendous threat and say that the normal pH level is already returning to the water of the Danube River.  
                       
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130396366


Hungarian firefighters clean a yard flooded by toxic mud in the town of Devecser.













Bela Szandelszky/AP Hungarian firefighters clean a yard flooded by
toxic mud in the town of Devecser on Wednesday.
Excavators work at a crumbled part of a reservoir that held waste from an alumina factory near Aika.

Sandor H. Szabo/MTI/AP
An aerial photo shows excavators working at a collapsed section of a reservoir that unleashed an estimated torrent of 35 million cubic feet of toxic waste from an alumina factory near Ajka, southwest of Budapest, Hungary.


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