Brutal oil contamination on the Danube – pictures

Civilians, locals and environmental activists are putting money together to find out who has caused the most severe environmental pollution of the past 20 years at the Ráckevei-Duna, an important anabranch of the river Danube.

On the course of last weekend, someone spilt a significant amount of dead oil (according to experts around six cubic meters) in the duct collecting rainwater on the corner of two streets in Szigetszentmiklós – at least according to a Facebook post on Sunday that has been already shared by more than 15,000 people.

The author of the post offered half a million forints for finding the culprit, but since then the “blood-money” has reached the double of the original amount.

According to the post mentioned by roviden.hu, the massive amount of oil flowed onto the bed of the anabranch of the Danube. Where the water exits the duct, the reed is currently holding the contamination on the surface of around 3-4000 m². Fortunately, the oil didn’t get into the watercourse itself; however, there are some areas around the piers in the reed where the used oil is built up to 20-25 cm thickness.

The National Directorate of Water told the MTI on Monday that professionals of the institution had successfully retained the contamination and were already working on cleaning it up. The police opened an investigation.

The communiqué pointed out that the institution had immediately ordered a 3^rd-degree water quality damage control plan after learning about the contamination.