Another massive fish kill: The Almonda River, Portugal

Loss of life of “thousand of fish” in the river Almonda
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The president of the Meeting of Clientele of Azinhaga, in concelho of the Golegã, alerted this tuesday for a loss of life of “thousand of fish” in the river Almonda. Vítor Guide attributes the death of the fish to a pollutant discharge in the water course. The situation was detected no longer passed Saturday and the Service of Protecção of the Nature and Ambiente (SEPNA) of the GNR confirmed to the Lusa that if dislocated to the place in the sunday, day 19, not advancing still which the reasons of the loss of life of the fish. “Already we cannot more life thus I smell, it is insuportável and each time has more fish died in waters and in the edges of the river”, it added Vítor Guide. The autarca also alleges that the stations of residual water treatment (ETAR) of concelho nothing have to see with the pollutant discharge because. In accordance with Vítor Guide, as much the ETAR of the Golegã as the ETAR of Azinhaga is to send the volumes for the estuary of the river Tejo, in a zone downstream of where the pollutant discharge in the river Almonda was detected. This discharge is to be investigated by the SEPNA together with technician of the Hidrográfica Administration of the Region of the Tejo (ARH-Tejo), that they had collected in the place some samples of the water for analysis. The chunk of the river Almonda where if it verifies the death of the fish is placed already is of the Natural Reserve of the Paul of the Boquilobo, still related the autarca of Azinhaga.

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