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Chemicals run into the water – Berlin.de

At the metalworking factory in the south of Berlin, where a major fire broke out on Thursday, contaminated extinguishing water ran into the sewer system on Saturday evening. According to information from the Berliner Wasserbetriebe on Sunday, it should be so-called cyanides. “This has messed up the biology in the Waßmannsdorf sewage treatment plant,” said a spokesman. Dead fish were discovered in the drainage streams of the sewage treatment plant. The newspaper «BZ» (online) reported first.

Cyanides prevent living organisms such as fish from absorbing enough oxygen through the blood. “There is no danger to the population,” said the spokesman. However, as a precautionary measure, walkers in the vicinity of the sewage treatment plant should ensure that “dogs, for example, do not drink water from the drainage streams.” The two streams flow to Rudow and Schönefeld to the Teltow Canal.

During the fire in Berlin-Marienfelde, the Berlin fire brigade, together with the water company, erected a barrier to prevent contaminated extinguishing water from flowing away. “The lock had a leak that we stuffed with sealing bags on Saturday evening,” said a fire department spokesman on Sunday.

In the Waßmannsdorf sewage treatment plant (Dahme-Spreewald district), work was carried out on Sunday to repair the biological damage. “20 trucks have been commuting to Waßmannsdorf since the night, delivering new sewage sludge from the Ruhleben plant,” said a spokesman for the water company on Sunday morning. It was initially unclear until when the work would continue.

Source: dpa

| Updated: Sunday, February 14, 2021 12:05 p.m.

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