Millions of gallons of sewage was released out of the Sege river in the night.

Malmö20 October 2016 15:28

the Night was released in 4000 cubic metres of untreated waste water out in the Sege å. The waste water gushed out in the river with a speed of 200 litres per second.

The dirty water was discharged into the river after a failure of a discharge pipe to Sjölunda wastewater treatment plant, says the VA Syd in a press release.

In about six hours and ran the water out of the river by so-called overflow. Total estimated 4000 cubic meters, or 4 million gallons of raw sewage have been released into the river.

An emergency repair began during the night so as quickly as possible be able to return to normal operation, type VA Syd.

According to the VA Syd did bräddningen that there was some flooding in the basement in the centre of Malmö.

With a sugbil to VA Syd", as far as possible," gather up the waste water from the river in the vicinity of the outlet, which was used to drop out the dirty water, said VA Syd.

VA Syd then hold previously to examine the possibility to improve the tryckavloppssystemet in Malmö. A part of this work is the investigation surrounding the controversial Malmö avloppstunnel.

According to the VA Syd means the breakdown and discharge of the Sege of no risk to the environment. But local authorities believe that it shows that Malmö’s old tryckavloppssystem is vulnerable.

“It shows the need for a long-term and stable solution of Malmö’s sewer network,” says Ulf Nyberg, head of department at VA SYD in the press release.

” It was luck in the misfortune that the pipes burst right in the night. Secondly, the load was on the system just then, because many are sleeping and, secondly, it was raining so it was not so much water in the lines.