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Fire chief treated after inhaling toxic fumes at port spill

>????????chief of Barcelona’s fire service has been discharged from the Hospital Clínico where he was treated after inhaling toxic fumes after an accidental spill near the port on Friday.
The spill occurred at around 9.30am Friday morning when a cistern containing dimethylamine smashed after being dropped as it was being loaded onto a lorry at the [...]

26May2008 | catalunya spain | 0 comments | Continued
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Recent rains in Catalonia allow water restrictions to be lifted

Water levels in the Ter-Llobregat reservoir system that supplies Barcelona have been swollen by twenty cubic hectometres to 28.9% of total capacity as a result of the recent heavy rain, meaning that the exceptional drought alert can be downgraded from a level two to a level one.
In turn, this means that domestic water usage restriction [...]

15May2008 | catalunya spain | 0 comments | Continued
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First emergency water supplies reach Barcelona

The ‘Sichem Defender’, the first tanker loaded with emergency domestic water supplies from Tarragona, arrived in Barcelona port this morning at 8.30am.
It will take just seventeen hours to unload the 19,000 cubic litres on board, that were pumped from aquifers of the Camp de Tarragona and Reus.
In total, the water has been subjected to four [...]

13May2008 | catalunya spain | 0 comments | Continued