A barge with nitrogen fertilizers sank on the border between Serbia and Croatia on the Danube River, but Environment Minister Mircea Fecet said on Saturday that the Romanian side is closely monitoring water quality and there are no changes affecting the Danube, News.ro reported.

The Minister of the Environment told News.ro that the Serbian side is in contact with his colleagues in the ministry, and they reported that neither at the site nor downstream from the site of the incident, they did not find any excesses.

According to Fechet, the situation is still under control and “the large flow, 9,000 cubic meters per second, has provided a high enough dilution that there will be no changes that will affect the river.”

“We also have the experience of another barge sunk in 2015, in Moldova Nouă, with a similar amount of 842 tons of nitrogen, and similarly we have been monitoring the quality of the Danube for a long time, and even then we did not have much problems with nitrogen. “, he added the minister. A cargo ship loaded with nitrogen fertilizers sank after colliding with a bridge on the border between Serbia and Croatia on the Danube River, raising fears of serious environmental damage, authorities said Friday, as cited by AP.

Serbia’s environment ministry said the barge, which sank about 40 minutes after midnight, was carrying 1,000 tons of nitrogen fertilizer, adding that the Environmental Protection Agency was monitoring the situation on the Danube. Croatian authorities closed the bridge and the border crossing with Serbia while they inspected the damage to one of the piers of the bridge, which was hit by a ship. There were no injuries as a result of the accident.