Posted by Global Issues Budapest on Monday, November 15, 2010,
On Monday, October 4th at 12 o’clock, a dam of a lake that had kept red sludge (fluid holding rust, acquired through the processing of aluminum) broke and flooded several villages. The red sludge flooded communities below the hill which the dam was located on: Devecser, Kolontár, Somlóvásárhely, Tuskevár, Apáctornát and Kisberzsényt. But how did this happen? Due to a combination of heavy rain fall and poorly built infrastructure, the wall of the dam broke and the sludge streamed dow...