In New Caledonia, spilling 5000 liters of sulfuric acid.

On the island of New Caledonia as a result of the accident at the plant the company Vale Inco, performing nickel and cobalt in the environment resulted from 1000 to 5000 liters of sulfuric acid, the newspaper Les Nouvelles Caledoniennes.

The accident occurred Wednesday afternoon at 1 April. According to preliminary data, the cause of leakage was poor connection pipes.

Despite the fact that the fire and the factory teams have a lot of limestone dikes in the way of acid, it has glass in the North Bay.

A lot of fish died. Specialists believe that the shellfish and marine flora is also not moved the high acidity.

Authorities are investigating the circumstances of the incident. One of the main questions - why the average swimming pool, specifically designed to collect vylivshihsya chemicals, was unable to prevent further bottling acid.

According to some sources, his volume is simply not enough to accommodate all of the spilled acid. In this regard, a number of eyewitnesses have reported that the leakage was not 5000 liters, and was 30 times greater.

For other data, the basin was under repair. It is noted that the factory vessel with sulfuric acid is about 270 thousand liters.