Vistula river

Backiel, T. (1973). Production and food consumption of predatory fish in the Vistula River. Journal of Fish Biology 3,369-405. 

In his expert report, Fredrick Leuchter pointed out that due to the high ground water table he found in Birkenau in 1988, it would have been impossible to dig deep pits and to light and maintain a fire in them.26 The reason for the high ground water table is that the Birkenau camp lies in the immediate vicinity of the confluence of the Sola river into the Vistula river. A few hundred meters away from the camp one finds today swampy meadows. 

Helios Rybicka, E., 1993. Phase-specific boudiug of heavy metals iu sedimeuts of the Vistula river, Polaud. Appl. Geochem. 2, 45 8. 

The metal concentrations in the suspended matter are even higher, e.g. the Vistula River can obtain about 6000 ppm Zn, 1200 ppm Pb and 134 ppm Cd (Helios Rybicka 1992). 

Helios Rybicka E (1992) Phase-specific bonding of heavy metals in sediments of the Vistula River, Poland. Appl. Geoch. 7. 

According to Dr. ter Meer, the existence of the concentration camp had not crossed his mind when he accepted Ambros invitation (this was his first visit, a year before he scanned the grounds from the boiler house) to come down to look the place over. Here was an industrial delight The buna factory they wanted to build would have a capacity larger than any of the others. They would need a million tons of hard coal, and Oswiecem was on the southern border of the Silesian coal fields. The plant needed as much power as the city of Berlin, and here at Oswiecem three rivers united — the Sola, the Przemsze, and the Little Vistula. East of the town was another river which could furnish extra power and would take off the waste from the plant. 

A buna factory needed a lot of water, even in winter. They planned to cut a canal to connect the Vistula to the Oder a few miles away. Oswiecem was on a level plain, and all the waters of all the rivers around could be harnessed without flooding. Oswiecem fell on a line between Krakow and Vienna, and the old short stretches of railways could be joined to ship the buna back to the Reich. Said Ter Meer "There were really so many of our industrial prerequisites that one has to admit that this location, Auschwitz, was ideal industrially."... 

Siepak, J. 1999. Total organic carbon (TOC) as a sum parameter of water pollution in selected Polish rivers (Vistula, Odra, and Warta). Acta Hydrochim. Hydrobiol. 27 282-285. 

A scoop in this area would be some bad news, I am afraid , preferably some kind of disaster I associate it with leakage from a tank, or a lot of dead fish in the Vistula (a river) - this is news that deserves to be placed on the first pages (DZ-reporter). The local/regional reporter from Glos Pomorza defines a scoop as, for example, if it were revealed that there was some chemical waste from the West stored illegally somewhere close by ... 

Recent investigations (Macklin and Klimek 1992) show very high concentration of Zn, Pb and Cd in the overbank alluvial sediments of the Upper Vistula (Metkow) and Przemsza (Gorzow) Rivers. Cadmium concentrations are particularly elevated and approach some of the highest levels (up to 150 ppm) recorded in river sediments in Europe. 

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