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Events on Tuesday 15 February 2000 1
2000Baia Mare cyanide spillA gold-mine dam failure poisons the Tisza and the DanubeOn 30 January 2000 a tailings dam at a gold-recovery plant near Baia Mare in northern Romania burst, releasing around 100,000 cubic metres of cyanide-laden water. The plume moved down the Somes, Tisza and Danube rivers through Hungary and Serbia, killing large quantities of fish and contaminating drinking supplies. It was widely described as Europe's worst environmental disaster since Chernobyl.