Two businessmen were arrested
Wednesday on suspicion of polluting a river near Naples, police
said.
Run-off water and waster from their zinc plating plant at Torre
Annunziata had raised the level of zinc in the Sarno River to
over 200 times the legal limit, police said.
There were also dangerous levels of copper and ammonium, other
by--products of production at the Eurogalvanica factory.
Police said the pollution "posed significant dangers to public
health".
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