Diesel Oil Spill Causes
Severe Pollution In Bolivia
LA PAZ - A traffic accident of a tank truck
loaded with 15,000 liters of diesel oil
began affecting the natural reserve of
Colorada Lagoon, located in Potosi
department in the south of Bolivia, the
Defense League of the Environment (Lidema)
said on Tuesday.
According to Lidema's experts, the spill has
begun damaging the environment. The tank
truck, owned by Tierra Ltd., turned over on
June 2 in the road bordering Colorada Lagoon
in the Fauna Reserve Andean Eduardo Avaroa,
located in the southwest of Potosi in the
valley of Sulor River that passes by a
wetland.
The wetland and Sulor River flow into the
northeast of the Colorada Lagoon.
According to the guards of that area, at
least 7,000 liters of diesel oil were spilt.
The Lidema said the amount of spilt diesel
oil is enough to generate an
ecological disaster, affecting the wetland
and Sulor River.
The Tierra Ltd. has already begun the
cleaning works, in order to prevent the
spill from further contaminating the
Colorada Lagoon.
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