Metro company confirms link with Kypseli sludge fountain

A flood of grey concrete-like sludge that spewed for hours from an abandoned gathering successful cardinal Athens is linked with tunnel-boring work for a caller Athens metro line, the subway improvement institution confirmed Thursday.

A statement by Elliniko Metro said the leak posed nary information oregon contamination concerns.

Authorities closed sections of Evias and Strofadon streets successful the capital’s Kypseli territory to traffic connected Wednesday afternoon, aft the sludge seeped retired of the courtyard of an bare gathering and onto the street. 

Elliniko Metro said the substance of crushed stone and a special foam expelled under unit during tunnel boring work had recovered its way done an aged sewage tube into the abandoned building’s courtyard, and from there to the streets of Kypseli. It said the foam is used to support ground-level structures by counter-acting unit from overhead strata during tunnel-boring work.

“The task contractors person already removed that worldly and cleaned the area,” the statement said. “This incidental has not led to immoderate issues of information oregon semipermanent pollution.”

Tunnel-boring work was carried retired successful the country betwixt the under-construction stations of Kypseli and Dikastiria connected the subway’s delayed Line 4.