
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, July 1, 1990                   TAG: 9007010126
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: VERSAILLES, FRANCE                                LENGTH: Short

FRENCH TROOPS JOIN SEINE CLEANUP EFFORTS

France called out the army Saturday to help clean up about 80 tons of dead fish floating belly-up in the Seine, apparent victims of river pollution following severe rainstorms.

A company of 70 soldiers was called in to help 200 rescue workers remove the fish, an army spokesman said.

The dead fish were strewn along an 18-mile stretch of the Seine west of Paris. Officials said they could not give a precise cause for the fish kill.

But they speculated it was related to pollution following severe rainstorms over two days in which backed-up sewers, combined with intense heat which lowered the oxygen level in the Seine.

- Associated Press

by CNB