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The works concerning the elimination of train crash results which happened on February 19th 2007 about 23.00 in Swarzędz near Poznań, near a Beekeeping Museum. From a running freight train 8 middle carriages filled with mazout fell out. (Mazout is an oily liquid used for example as marine fuel). Mazout from six derailed tank carriages was pumped into replacement tanks. 70 tons of liquid leaked from two tanks. Mazout started to flow by drainage ditches into the pond on the territory of the Beekeeping Museum, and further to the Swarzędzkie Lake. If the oily liquid had got into the lake, there would have been an ecological disaster. Mazout from the lake could have got into the Cybina river, and then into Maltańskie Lake. The firefighters and the PROTE’s EMERGENCY ECOLOGICAL SERVICE workers managed to prevent the spreading of mazout. The elimination of crash results lasted for a month, and for the next three months the monitoring of the site was carried out according to established deadlines. PROTE’s tasks involved mainly carrying out reclamation of the site in order to restore the environment state from before of the catastrophe, under the supervision of the Voivodship Environment Protection Inspector in Poznań.

"Miesięcznik SUCHOLEWSKI" issue 106 January/February 2007, page 17