A 100-km-long pollution slick on the Yellow River, China's second longest, is flowing through Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province Tuesday, posing no big threat to the environment as the pollutant density drops.

 

The pollution belt entered Jinan on Saturday and is expected to flow out of the city Tuesday night, with the diesel oil density --the major pollutant in the water-- continually reducing, staff with an emergency team which was set up to battle the pollution said, citing monitoring results.

 

A diesel oil leakage took place Thursday morning at a power plant in Gongyi City, Henan Province in central China, discharging 6 tons of diesel oil into Yellow River's main stream.

 

Experts said that the pollution slick on the surface of the river will not have a great impact on the environment and fish and shrimps, which usually descend to the bottom of the water in winter.

 

(Xinhua News Agency January 11, 2006)