A slick containing potentially lethal benzene in the Amur River is expected to reach the city of Khabarovsk on December 21. Traces of the slick, which formed after a November 13 explosion at Jilin petrochemicals plant in China dumped about 100 metric tons of toxic chemical into an Amur tributary, could remain around the city for 4-5 days, affecting its population of 600,000.
Level of the Amur river is expected to rise by about one and a half meter after the Chinese authorities released water from reservoirs into the river in a bid to reduce the benzene concentration levels.
21-Dec-05 
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