Sarakreek (river)

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Sarakreek
Edited map from the Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch West-Indië 1914–1917

Edited map from the Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch West-Indië 1914–1917

Data
location Suriname
River system Suriname
Drain over Brokopondo Reservoir  → Suriname  → Atlantic
source west of the Lely Mountains
muzzle in the Brokopondo reservoir (southeast) Coordinates: 4 ° 26 '6 "  N , 54 ° 55' 27"  W, 4 ° 26 '6 "  N , 54 ° 55' 27"  W

length 50 km
Reservoirs flowed through Brokopondo reservoir

The Sarakreek is a river in the Brokopondo district , in the Republic of Suriname .

River course

Before the Brokopondo reservoir was built in the 1960s, the Sarakreek flowed into the Suriname River as a right tributary near the village of Koffiekamp, ​​which was also submerged in the reservoir . Today the reservoir takes in the Sarakreek in the southeast area and flows over the Suriname into the Atlantic.

source

The Sarakreek rises about 20 km west of the Lely Mountains, in the southeastern part of the Brokopondo district, on the border with the Sipaliwini district . It is about 50 km long from the source to the Brokopondo reservoir.

Gold, pollution

Gold was discovered at the Sarakreek at the end of the 19th century . To facilitate gold mining, the Lawabahn was built between 1903 and 1912 as far as Dam on the Sarakreek (today a reservoir).

The Sarakreeke has been contaminated again and again in recent decades by legal and illegal prospectors. At the end of 2015 and beginning of 2016 the situation was exacerbated by gold pontoons banished from the reservoir to the Sarakreek .

With these floating gold mining factories, the Sarakreek continues to be heavily polluted by the use of mercury .

Web links

  • CFA Bruijning and J. Voorhoeve (red.): Encyclopedie van Suriname . Elsevier , Amsterdam a. Brussel 1977, ISBN 90-10-01842-3 , pp. 591-592.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StarNieuws, January 1, 2016 Dutch, accessed March 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ StarNieuws of February 10, 2016 Minister Dodson in Parliament on the gold pontoons, Dutch, accessed on March 29, 2016.