Water that “smells like rotten eggs”: Gardanne, still polluted by red mud

The Gardanne alumina plant, known for its 50-year discharge of red mud into the Mediterranean, is partly responsible for groundwater pollution with heavy metals and hydrocarbons, Reporterre reveals. Gardanne (Bouches-du-Rhône), report Between Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, the Alteo plant is infamous for its toxic red mud: at least 35 million tons dumped between 1966 and 2015 at the bottom of the Mediterranean off the Calanques. For a (…) Read m…