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EcoInformatics International Inc.: "COLLAPSE OF BEAVERDAMS BLAMED FOR TRAIN DERAILMENT AND FUEL SPILL IN THE OTTAWA RIVER

In the early morning of June 3, 2009, (3 a.m.) a freight train derailed about 16 kilometers east of Mattawa, close to the (in the 1930s -40s) vanished lumber village of Klock. The derailment included two locomotives and six empty rail cars used to haul lumber. About 15,000 liters of fuel was spilled in the Ottawa river. One car was in the river. (Canadian Press CBC News)

The Ottawa Valley Railway train went of the tracks around 3.10 a.m. when it ran into 180 meters of washed out tracks on an embankment just besides the Ottawa River. The OVR is a short-line railroad with 550 km of track between Coniston and Smiths Falls with CP interchanges at Sudbury and Smith Falls."