Mudflood in Hungary, October 2010

On October 04, 2010, a reservoir dam holding waste of an aluminium plant broke near the village Kolontár in the Veszprém district of Hungary. The emergent mud flood mixed with flood water from a stream and swept through the villages Kolontár, Devecser and Somlóvásárhely and the surrounding country. ZKI provides Reference and Flood Maps in the framework of the GMES Emergency Response project SAFER with funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme.