In the Swiss town of Wittenbach (canton of St. Gallen), just a few kilometers from the border with Vorarlberg, several thousand liters of manure flowed into two streams on Monday evening. A child had previously started a manure pump.
Around 7 p.m., the St. Gallen emergency call center received a report that the Chrobel and Hofenbach streams were polluted. It turned out that a child had pressed the switch of a manure pump on a farm in Wittenbach. As a result, several thousand liters of corrosive feces were pumped onto the forecourt of the courtyard and then flowed into the Chrobelbach via a gutter. From there, the poisonous mixture found its way to the Hofenbach.
The fire brigade then tried to limit the damage and build a flood barrier. Fresh water was also supplied under this barrier. However, this came too late for countless fish: the entire population was wiped out over a distance of several hundred meters, and on Tuesday morning dead fish even washed up several kilometers away.
Source: Krone
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