据报道,肥料生产商美盛公司发言人称,这座磷肥厂设在佛州马尔伯里(Mulberry),污水池水位于8月27日下降。
这个约100米深天坑外泄的污水,足以装满300个奥林匹克运动会的比赛用游泳池。泄露的污水含有磷石膏,这是生产肥料时产生的略具微放射性的副产品。而这些污水已渗入地下蓄水层,这是佛罗里达州主要的饮用水源地,供应数千万居民饮水。
部分原文报道如下:
A sinkhole spanning 45 feet (13.7 meters) in diameter opened at a Mosaic Co phosphate fertilizer facility in Florida, leaking 215 million gallons of “slightly radioactive water,” a company spokesman said on Friday.
Mosaic said the monitoring system at its New Wales facility at Mulberry, Florida, showed a decline in water levels on Aug. 27 from the retention pond of a phosphogypsum stack, a hill of hazardous waste. Phosphogypsum is a radioactive byproduct resulting from the production of phosphate.
原文链接:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mosaic-sinkhole-idUSKCN11M1QW
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3794074/Sinkhole-Florida-fertilizer-plant-leaks-200-million-gallons-radioactive-water.html
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