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On 30 January 2000, a tailings pond burst at a facility near the city of Baia Mare, Romania which was reprocessing old mining tailings and re-depositing the waste sludge into a new tailings pond. This led to approximately 100,000 m3 of waste water containing up to 120 tons of cyanide and heavy metals being released into the Lapus River, then traveling downstream into the Somes and Tisa rivers into Hungary before entering the Danube.
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LÁSZLÓ, F. (2006). LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE CYANIDE AND HEAVY METAL ACCIDENTAL WATER POLLUTION IN THE TISA RIVER BASIN IN THE YEAR 2000. In: Dura, G., Kambourova, V., Simeonova, F. (eds) Management of Intentional and Accidental Water Pollution. NATO Security through Science Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4800-9_4
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