The bauxite residue storage pond and the broken dyke

Author:

Gruiz Katalin

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Pieces of the dyke broken through by the flooding tide

The body of the dyke drifted by the slurry tide

Working equipment under the broken dyke of the 10th reservoir

View of the broken dyke from the storage pond

Equipment working along the outside part of the breach

Red mud in the 10th reservoir

Heterogeneity of the stored red slurry

The drying red mud

Salts precipitated on the surface of the drying red mud

Heterogeneity of the red mud in the 10th cell

Surface of the red mud

Further cracks in the dyke of the 10th reservoir

Cracks in the dyke

Dyke of the red mud storage facility

Outer view of the intact dyke of the red mud reservoirs

The 9th reservoir of the red mud storage facility

The underground reactive barrier around the reservoirs

The leachate collection ditch

This photo gallery provides an overview of the bauxite residue storage facility and of the condition of the broken dyke as of November 2010.