Geamăna, Romania - The sinking village 1970s vs 2000s
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HopperBit [OP]
GadreelsSword
It was flooded and didn’t sink.
HopperBit [OP]
I used the Radio-Free-Europe/Radio-Liberty article title. Flooded is more accurate
Ab0ut47Pandas
I would argue that my kitchen sink floods with water from the faucet... But we still call that a sink.
HopperBit [OP]
One more old vs 2014: https://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Untitled-1.jpg
And the toxic flooding continue to these days (2023): https://youtu.be/MTDQbi9YNQU?t=1535
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Kind of sad
Mindless-Swordfish90
WOW!
The village of Geamana once lay deep in a fertile valley, today it lies under 90 meters of toxic waste.
All 2017 photos Copyright Amos Chapple/RFE/RL. Archive images courtesy Cornel Holhorea.
https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-sinking-village-geamana-waste-copper-mine/28436792.html
https://www.boredpanda.com/geamana-village-sinking-industrial-waste-romania-amos-chapple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5CGlOSiz1Y
Yesterday_Is_Now 11 points · May 2023
That was extremely depressing. No government promises to clean this up?
Scimmia8 6 points · May 2023
Pretty sure that is the cleanup. They turned the valley into a tailings reservoir for the copper mine which is still in operation and still dumping tailings into the reservoir. Soon enough the church spire probably won’t be visible either.