Trains running normally on Copenhagen Metro after flood
Ritzau/The Local - [email protected]
Published: 17 Nov, 2023 CET.
Updated: Fri 17 Nov 2023 07:51 CET
Trains started running again on the M1 and M2 lines of the Copenhagen Metro at 5am on Friday morning, after heavy rainfall closed down both lines between Nørreport and Christianshavn due to about 20cm of water on the track.
"The cause of the flooding will only become clear in the course of next week," Jette Clausen, a communications consultant at Metro Service, which maintains the lines, told Ritzau. She said that engineers did not yet know the reason why so much water had come in.
Martin Kjærsgaard, from the city's emergency services, said they had used suction pumps to pump hundreds of thousands of litres of water into the sea, after checking it for contamination with oil and other pollutants.
"The quality of the water had to be examined first, but it can easily be pumped out into the harbour," he said.
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"The cause of the flooding will only become clear in the course of next week," Jette Clausen, a communications consultant at Metro Service, which maintains the lines, told Ritzau. She said that engineers did not yet know the reason why so much water had come in.
Martin Kjærsgaard, from the city's emergency services, said they had used suction pumps to pump hundreds of thousands of litres of water into the sea, after checking it for contamination with oil and other pollutants.
"The quality of the water had to be examined first, but it can easily be pumped out into the harbour," he said.
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