Twenty-five tons of molasses accidentally spilled on Friday into a small river in Aveyron, the Audiernes, generating contamination whose impact is being analyzed, we learned on Saturday from the prefecture and the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB).
Consulted by AFP, she could not specify the exact nature of the technical incident and evoked “at first sight, an accidental technical problem.”
cattle feeding
The material dumped into the river is “beet molasses” used for the manufacture of “cattle feed”, Céline Benevise, head of the OFB unit in Rodez, told AFP.
“As a precautionary measure,” the prefecture specified, the local authorities suspended “water extractions from the Diège aquifer located below the disaster” and established a connection to another network.
“Pending the results of the analysis, local residents are advised to limit the drinking or watering of cattle” in these rivers, he said, adding that a judicial investigation has been “opened under the authority of the Rodez public prosecutor’s office.” “.
Source: BFM TV
