2024-07-21 22:19:32
The toxic discharge into the Besòs River, caused by the fire on Friday in a chemical products storage company in Polinyà (Barcelona), forced the closure of the Besòs River Park.
The fire of 5 chemical product storage warehouses in Polinyà (Barcelona) on July 19
The water used by firefighters to put out the fire washed away the chemicals (primarily ammonia) that were stored at the Barnastock company, where the fire originated. The water ended up in the sewage system and the Lagosta treatment plant. Some of the polluting substances in the water damaged the biological treatment of the plant, 9 million liters of water, equivalent to almost four Olympic swimming pools.
The Operations Director of the Besòs Tordera Consortium, the body responsible for the treatment plant, has revealed that the treatment plant is urban in nature, it is designed to treat urban waste water through a biological treatment system based on an ecosystem of bacteria, which water pollution itself without chemical additives. The problem is that the bacterial ecosystem has been “suppressed or killed” by the avalanche of fire exhaust.
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The Provincial Council of Barcelona and the local councils of the Irish League Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Sant Adrià de Besòs y Montcada and Reixac (Barcelona) to close the river park for public use until further notice, as the Provincial Council recalled this Sunday in a publication in X collected by Europa Press.
🔴 As a precaution against the spill in the Besòs river, the ACA (Catalan water agency) ordered the preventive closure of Forum beach due to changes in the quality of the water.
We continue to analyze the situation and ADF (Forest Defense) troops are already… https://t.co/zc4gDBF0OO
— Filo Cañete Carrillo (@CaneteFilo) July 20, 2024
On the other hand, the work to remove dead species from the Besòs continues this Sunday in the parts of the river that pass through these areas, under the supervision of the voluntary work of the Forest Protection Groups (ADF) and Rural Agents, at the request of the Council. Catalan Water Agency (ACA).
About 865 copies were removed this Saturdayand this Sunday we will This morning another 100 have been removedwith the additional difficulties due to the rise in water levels due to rain.
The City Council of Montcada in Reixac insists that citizens and domestic animals must not have any kind of contact with the water of the river.
Swimming is prohibited on Forum beach
This Sunday, the Civil Defense maintains the ban on swimming on Fòrum beach in Sant Adrià de Besòs (Barcelona), in the delta river, as well as in a stretch of about five hundred meters of channel at its mouth due to the presence of the -toxic elements. in Water.
The treatment plant will not return to normal for at least two weeks, which will affect the quality of the water that flows into the Besòs river bed.
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