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To: riverrunner

The company that owns that pipeline will probably go broke cleaning it up... Years ago I managed a distribution facility in New Jersey and I had a truck rupture a fuel tank. It was a small hole created by a rock kicked up. The driver discovered the leak at one of his stops. The driver promptly contained the leak. We lost maybe 5 gallons of diesel in a gravel parking lot. The Fire Dept had a hazmat team on site within minutes. We had to contact a certified Haz Mat remediation company to clean up 5 friggin gallons. The process, paperwork, etc was amazing. They even brought out companies to test streams miles away to make sure they were not contaminated. Total cost was around $30K. It was the craziest thing I had ever seen.


6 posted on 05/20/2015 5:53:50 AM PDT by martinidon
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To: martinidon
The company that owns that pipeline will probably go broke cleaning it up...

Not likely. While it makes for good pictures to the uninformed, this isn't that difficult to clean up.

7 posted on 05/20/2015 6:06:18 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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