Workers build new protective banks to prevent further damage

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(11 Oct 2010) 1. Wide shot of Kolontar with truck driving by and excavator in background 2. Excavator clearing sludge 3. Workers in protective suits 4. Workers pushing wheelbarrow 5. Workers walking towards town centre 6. Long shot of town centre with truck and workers behind buildings 7. Excavator and truck operating along railway, behind buildings 8. Various, excavator moving sludge 10. Wide of river blocked with sludge 11. Trees buried in sludge 12. Wide shot of banks built between Kolontar and sludge reservoir STORYLINE: Hungary's prime minister said on Monday that police had detained the director of the company that owned the metals plant where a reservoir flooded several towns with toxic red sludge. Speaking in parliament in Budapest, Viktor Orban said the government must take over direction of MAL Rt., the Hungarian Aluminium Production and Trade Company, and freeze its assets. Orban also said the safe restart of production at the alumina plant was in the public interest and was needed to save the jobs of thousands of workers. Meanwhile a 2-thousand-foot- (620-metre) long dam set to be between four and five metres (yards) high was under construction on Monday to save the areas of the town of Kolontar not directly hit by last week's toxic flood. At least seven people died and one is still missing in the wake of the sludge deluge from a 10-hectare (24.7 acres) storage pool, where a byproduct of aluminum production was kept. Around 700-thousand cubic metres (184 million gallons) of the caustic red sludge was released. Officials said on Monday there had been no widening of the new cracks on the reservoir. With the northwest corner of the storage pool still showing a hole 50 metres (yards) wide where the mix of mud and water broke through last week, officials said the collapse of at least one of the breached walls was inevitable. That, they said, would probably unleash a new deluge of toxic matter that could ooze a half-mile (1 kilometre) to the north, wreaking further havoc. That would flood parts of the town nearest the plant - one of those already hit by the industrial waste on 4 October - but stop short of the next town to the north. Nearly all of Kolontar's 800 residents were evacuated on Saturday, when Orban said the north wall of the massive storage pool "very likely" to collapse because cracks that had appeared at several points. The roughly 6-thousand residents of neighbouring Devecser, just north of Kolontar, were also told by police to pack a single bag and get ready to leave at a moment's notice. According to one official, since it would be impossible to transfer the 2.5 (m) million cubic metres (568 (m) million gallons) of red sludge still in the damaged reservoir anywhere else. A two-month deadline for closing up the huge opening has been set. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ffcec16ca0e75bf7647388c2db6aaa90 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

Workers build new protective banks to prevent further damage

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(11 Oct 2010) 1. Wide shot of Kolontar with truck driving by and excavator in background 2. Excavator clearing sludge 3. Workers in protective suits 4. Workers pushing wheelbarrow 5. Workers walking towards town centre 6. Long shot of town centre with truck and workers behind buildings 7. Excavator and truck operating along railway, behind buildings 8. Various, excavator moving sludge 10. Wide of river blocked with sludge 11. Trees buried in sludge 12. Wide shot of banks built between Kolontar and sludge reservoir STORYLINE: Hungary's prime minister said on Monday that police had detained the director of the company that owned the metals plant where a reservoir flooded several towns with toxic red sludge. Speaking in parliament in Budapest, Viktor Orban said the government must take over direction of MAL Rt., the Hungarian Aluminium Production and Trade Company, and freeze its assets. Orban also said the safe restart of production at the alumina plant was in the public interest and was needed to save the jobs of thousands of workers. Meanwhile a 2-thousand-foot- (620-metre) long dam set to be between four and five metres (yards) high was under construction on Monday to save the areas of the town of Kolontar not directly hit by last week's toxic flood. At least seven people died and one is still missing in the wake of the sludge deluge from a 10-hectare (24.7 acres) storage pool, where a byproduct of aluminum production was kept. Around 700-thousand cubic metres (184 million gallons) of the caustic red sludge was released. Officials said on Monday there had been no widening of the new cracks on the reservoir. With the northwest corner of the storage pool still showing a hole 50 metres (yards) wide where the mix of mud and water broke through last week, officials said the collapse of at least one of the breached walls was inevitable. That, they said, would probably unleash a new deluge of toxic matter that could ooze a half-mile (1 kilometre) to the north, wreaking further havoc. That would flood parts of the town nearest the plant - one of those already hit by the industrial waste on 4 October - but stop short of the next town to the north. Nearly all of Kolontar's 800 residents were evacuated on Saturday, when Orban said the north wall of the massive storage pool "very likely" to collapse because cracks that had appeared at several points. The roughly 6-thousand residents of neighbouring Devecser, just north of Kolontar, were also told by police to pack a single bag and get ready to leave at a moment's notice. According to one official, since it would be impossible to transfer the 2.5 (m) million cubic metres (568 (m) million gallons) of red sludge still in the damaged reservoir anywhere else. A two-month deadline for closing up the huge opening has been set. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ffcec16ca0e75bf7647388c2db6aaa90 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork