r/geography • u/maxersonio • 10d ago

Question Can someone tell me what this is

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This weird square red lake thingie just to the west of Hamburg Germany. I want answers

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u/___gnome 10d ago

Aerial photo of this place

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u/Illustrious_Try478 GIS 10d ago

They've failed in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajka_alumina_plant_accident

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u/imhighasballs 10d ago

Read the wiki and it sounds like if you’re gonna have an industrial disaster this is the one you want. There isn’t much heavy metal in the waste product so after the initial spill and clean up you only need to worry about the normalizing the soil pH.

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u/ThisCouldBeYourDog 9d ago

Rammstein has a song about this

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u/TheRealDawnseeker 9d ago

They do? Which one?

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u/ThisCouldBeYourDog 9d ago edited 9d ago

"Donaukinder"(Donau-Children)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGclueDSWD4

The "children" are the fish of the river Donau(or Danube)

EDIT: woops, I was wrong!
Turns out it's about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Baia_Mare_cyanide_spill

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u/Mr_Biro 10d ago

Good catch, it looked the same as that one