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Over 700 cubic feet of diesel leaked from power station fuel tank in Yakutia - Emergencies

Moscow, June 22 (Sputnik) At least 22 cubic meters (777 cubic feet) of diesel have leaked from a damaged fuel reservoir at a diesel power station in Russia’s Yakutia Republic, and part of the substance has spilled into the Alazeya river, local emergency services told Sputnik on Monday.
"As a result of depressurization of a diesel fuel reservoir, over 22 cubic meters of oil products have spilled and partly leaked into a 40-kilometer stretch of the Alazeya river," the emergency services said.
On Sunday, local emergency services told Sputnik that about five tonnes of diesel fuel leaked from a tank with a capacity of 160 tonnes. The remainder of the fuel is being pumped out of the tank into three tanks with similar volumes and two 25-tonne tanks.
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