Hungarian Disaster

[cohan]

i think i've seen erika posting, so hopefully her family and garden are far from this nightmare?
do we have any other hungarian members who may have been affected?

[Maggi Young]

This Hungarian Dam disaster near Kolontar  is an ongoing problem, of course, and very dangerous.
At least Erika lives in Szekszárd, quite a long way south east from the area affected.

Kovacs Pal  lives in Dorog, is to the north of Budabpest, where Kata lives.


I'm just checking on what other Forumists might be registered from Hungary. There are just a few and I don't have addresses for them all.

[cohan]

yes, a really awful thing, especially for the land and soil and those who live on it....
good to hear at least that it seems our friends are ok..

[Anthony Darby]

What interests me is why store this toxic sludge in a reservoir at all, or is there no choice? What happens when the reservoir is full? What do they do with it then? It must get into the water table through seepage from the reservoir and then what?

[Lesley Cox]

News the other night said that more had spilled from the reservoir than the volume of oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico by the BP disaster! There was a forlorn and frightening picture of a small dog lapping the filthy red stuff because his water supply had vanished. The whole area of inundated land will be destroyed for generations to come I should think.

There is more and more flooding China and just about every S.E. Asian country you can think of, much cause by deforestation. What is wrong with humanity now that we are so greedy for money that our land and every place we can live is destroyed for such short-term gain for a very few people?

[Arykana]

Thank you for worry for me. I live more South and quite safe - except if the dirt will rich the Duna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemenc We live near this special environment and have fear for this
Why happened? the owner filled up the reservoir more then limit and the rainy weather soaked the dam
The owner really neglected this cases and neglected the dam anyway

[Arykana]

the weather is windy and dry - in one hand it is lucky but the other hand the air full with this red dirt and spreding away