Spare wheel assy - does it ever fail? (1 Viewer)

[blatant]

WOW... Really?!? Just wow.

Still attached.

on the other hand. We visited a village today, that became the victim of copper mining, and the sludge produced by it.

It was like this in’86. Notice the church on the top of the “hill”, way above the houses
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-1000 people & 33 years later the same church
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It’s a sad (and silent) place
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but it has a strange beauty to it
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[uHu]

-1000 people & 33 years later the same church

What's that "-1000 people"?

Tech content: did the air pressure hold in the winched up spare wheel?

 

[l3n0x]

What's that "-1000 people"?

Tech content: did the air pressure hold in the winched up spare wheel?

It was a village there & around 1000 people used to live there. When the government (Ceausescu) decided they're going to use this technique to mine copper in the mines nearby, they pumped the byproduct sludge out of the mines, inside the valley that hosted this village. The sludge level (contains high levels of sulfuric acid) then raises 1m every year since '86 (edit: '77), now flooding the whole valley & the only thing standing out is the top of the church (which was already the highest point of the village, sitting on a small hill). So as the level of the sludge rose, people have to leave their homes, eventually all ~1000 of them. I don't know where and how they were relocated, but knowing the socialist systems and regimes, they probably weren't compensated properly.

Here is an article, written in proper english
Linky

Tech: I'll check it tomorrow But I guess all is well