On Wednesday, it was announced that the Syvab wastewater treatment plant released 1.8 million litres of untreated wastewater into Lake Mälaren on June 16. The cause was heavy rain that a pumping machine could not handle.
Now an incident report shows that Stockholm Water and Waste released 25.6 million litres of untreated wastewater and 46.4 million litres of partially treated wastewater at the treatment plant in Henriksdal on June 15, writes Dagens ETC.
During the summer, swimming is advised against at a large number of Stockholm city beaches due to algae blooms.
Alva Engström, environmental and health protection inspector at the City of Stockholm, writes in a comment to the newspaper that it is difficult to answer how the discharge affects the quality of bathing water.
