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| 20TH - 26TH NOVEMBER 2015 | UTILITY WEEK
Operations & Assets
High viz
Our final week featuring some of the
photography shortlisted in this year's
Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photog-
rapher of the Year Competition shows
the abandoned village of Geamana,
Romania, in 2014, by Glyn Thomas.
The village of Geamana in the
Apuseni mountains in Romania was
deliberately abandoned and flooded
to form a tailings pond for a vast cop-
per mine. Four hundred families were
evacuated and the village flooded
Buried but not
forgotten
