Oil Slick on Rhine Heads for Holland
A 19-mile-long oil slick was flowing down the Rhine River toward the Netherlands on Sunday, a government official said.
Johannes Winkel, a state spokesman in Duesseldorf, said West German authorities issued an international pollution alert and notified Dutch authorities that the spill was approaching their territory.
He said the spill apparently was caused by an unidentified ship discharging its diesel fuel waste on Saturday night. Winkel did not know how much oil had spilled, but he said the thin slick posed no danger to the environment.
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