Fuel Taints Waterways Supplying Moscow
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From Times Wire Reports
A spill of heavy fuel from a derailed train flowed into waterways that supply Moscow with drinking water, officials said.
About 770 tons of thick, tar-like fuel spilled from more than a dozen tanker cars that went off the tracks Wednesday about 100 miles northwest of Moscow. Emergency officials said the spill would not affect Moscow’s water supply.
But Oleg Mitvol, a top federal environmental protection official, said the fuel was seeping into a tributary of the Volga River.
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