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La Huerta reservoir on the mend from molasses fish kill

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Tlajomulco city hall says the Arroyo San Isidro that leads into the La Hurtado reservoir is clear of pollution following an intense clean-up effort that cost the municipality over two million pesos. 

In one of the worst ecological disasters the municipality has ever suffered, molasses dumped into the arroyo last month by a local firm killed 530 tons of fish in the reservoir.  Cleaning up the reservoir will take longer but city hall says as soon as that is achieved, tilapia will be introduced to quickly reestablish the local fishing industry. Around 30 fishermen are currently receiving state handouts of just under 2,000 pesos per month to compensate for their loss of earnings.  Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval has promised that the reservoir will have made a 90-percent recovery by the end of the year.

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