On 2 March, approximately 5,000 liters of an oil-water mixture leaked from a tank into the Elbe River at a company site in Hamburg.
The spill spread across an area of about 90,000 cubic meters, according to German Authorities. While the fire department deployed oil booms on the river, the primary damage was on land, affecting the company site and the embankment, rather than the water itself.
The leak occurred at an oil waste recycling site in the Kattwykhafen area due to a crack in a heavy fuel oil tank. The mixture contaminated the water surface in the Rethe, a tributary of the Elbe River.
The fire department worked for around three and a half hours on Sunday evening with over 30 personnel to contain the spill
