World of the Bizarre

Road in Siberia ends up coated in green snow

By T.K. Randall
December 1, 2016 ·  12 comments
"Don't eat the yellow snow", as the saying goes, yet for motorists driving near Pervouralsk in Siberia this week, the color of the snow on the roads was of an even more disconcerting hue.

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The green coloration hadn't fallen from the sky however - it had come from beneath the ground."The accident today happened on a pipe between a pump and a cleaning station, so some of the water pumped from under the ground went on the surface," said Vladislav Oreshkin, a spokesman for Russian Chrome Chemicals 1915 - a company which makes chrome industrial materials.

"The incident happened because of an old slurry tank built in 1960 with violations of health and safety rules. In Soviet times some of the chromium containing water stayed under ground and went straight into Chusovaya river."

"Ten years ago we launched a system of drainage wells that capture contaminated water and neutralise it. One of the wells got clogged and part of the water went on the surface."

Source: Siberian Times | Comments (12)

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