The destructive path of Typhoon Wipha has led to the release of unknown amounts of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear facility into the ocean.

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Workers reported high levels of radioactive water in a ditch that leads directly to the Pacific Ocean, suggesting that high rain levels released contamination from the soil, according to Euronews.

Plant owner TEPCO is pumping large amounts of water that has gathered near the facility’s radioactive water storage tanks into the ocean to prevent more flooding. Officials claim that “the contamination was far below safe drinking water levels,” The New York Times reports.

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