Residents of a small Russian town were surprised after a small river suddenly turned bright green recently, according to local reports.
Residents are calling for tests amid fears of toxic pollution in the Penza waterway, located 650 kilometers southeast of Moscow.
“A poisoned green stream on Gagarin Street worries Penza residents,” the Mash media reported. “The local administration is already studying the liquid.”
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A river in the small Russian town of Penza has turned bright green, residents said. (East2West News)
The images show bright green water flowing amid a snowy landscape.
The river was hit by a sewage overflow in 2020, but the water never turned green, the newspaper said.
The All-Russian Popular Front, a political coalition created in 2011 by former Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, seeks violators of environmental regulations, according to the report.
The probable cause was an “accident,” Mash reported. The Moskovsky Komsomolets media outlet reported that the cause of the sudden coloring was “industrial dumping.”
Penza is home to 17 manufacturing plants, some of which produce items for the nuclear industry, radio and communications equipment, and automated management systems.
The skyline of Penza, Russia. (East2West News)
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“The reason for these metamorphoses is not due to an astonishing spring phenomenon during which the water takes on different colors, but to industrial waste dumped into the city's reservoirs,” says a local report.
No further details about the green waste were released.