A Hungarian scientist test samples in the Danube on the Friday-readings indicate that the pH is 8.5, only slightly above normal.New: 500,000 cubic metres of sludge could leak out, PM Saysuthorities are new damage to burst ReservoirSeven people dead from the SludgeSpecialists try to strengthen the reservoir (CNN)--Behörden evacuation were a Hungarian village on Saturday after new damage in the reservoir found a toxic sludge spill this week has caused you, a spokeswoman for emergency services said CNN.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who was the affected area Saturday to visit, said it was "very likely" that reservoir wall will collapse.
"" It is in very bad shape and we believe that the wall down, could fall "Orban told reporters in the town of Ajka."One consequence is that human life is in danger could be."The reason why we have... all human life from this area no longer loss in human life is pulled that."
If the wall collapses, 500,000 cubic metres of red mud could spill underline - the half Monday, spilling the Prime Minister said.
All inhabitants of the village Kolontar, spokeswoman Gyorgyi Tottos said, were evacuated wird.Zuvor, the inhabitants had been told by a few affected roads to leave, she said.
Kill the mud Kolontar and two other villages after the aluminum reservoir burst, seven people and more than 100 injured flooded, officials said.
Specialists worked to strengthen the reservoir Saturday and take the necessary measures to prevent a different toxic spill said had Tottos.Der reservoir repaired, after the disaster and the flow from the pool stopped.
The mud reached Europe mighty Danube Thursday, raising fears of wider contamination in Hungary and countries downstream, including Croatia Serbia Bulgaria, Romania, the Ukraine.
Water test results Friday, however, published, after all the Danube in the mud could not hurt.The pH or acid, the water level Danube 8.5 at the Friday-easily than normal but not dangerous and able to live to get was Tottos said.
Measurements of pH ranges from 0 to 14.Ebenen deeper than the 7 characterize acids and bases; refer to levels higher than 7strongly acid or very basic water can damage living being.
8.5 PH level and fast-moving currents made officials optimistic that a natural disaster can be avoided, she said.
Environmental disaster is nearly 100 miles west of Budapest, close to Ajka occurred.the covered mud Kolontar villages, Devecser and Somlovasarhely in some places can reach several meters high, leaving dead animals such as fish and frogs in its wake.
Orban warned the "hardest consequences" for those responsible for the spill and said the cause was human error.
"He said"Behind this tragedy, some human errors and mistakes must be present,".""We show all this and the consequences are very ernste-- as much as you can imagine."
In addition to all the inhabitants of Kolontar had to evacuate about 500 residents of Devecser and the residents of 16 houses in Somlovasarhely, Tottos said.
The exact chemical composition of the sludge is not been revealed, but aluminium processing normally includes compounds containing cyanide, cadmium and chromium.
Emergency workers have plaster and fertilizers on the mud in the hope of casting been meet its alkalinity wird.Staub from sludge drying can pose a threat, has the Hungarian Ministry of Interior gesagt.Es said masks filters you may have some workers involved damage cleanup.CNN's Mila Sanina and journalist flora Hevesi contributed to this report.
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