smells like a lawsuit
Posted on 06/12/2004 6:36:04 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
"Yep. They might dump enough bentonite in it to plug it up, but the water will find it's way back out again. It's just a question of how long."
My thoughts too. It might be broke worse than they can afford to fix.
You link to Lake Peigneur is quite a story.
Wonder what the diameter of that drill was, that started the process that drained that whole lake?
I first read about in in Readers Digest and ive seen video of in on one of the disaster shows they run on the history channel.
I'd love to hear about it from a Louisiana Freeper first hand perspective.
"According to the official report by federal mine safety investigators, "while the miners were escaping, the inundation rapidly became a torrent as water from Lake Peigneur drained into the mine at the 1,300-foot level. As the lake began emptying into the mine, a vast whirlpool approximately one-fourth of a mile in diameter developed in the lake. It caught in its grip a tugboat, a string of barges, and two Texaco oil rigs. Two boats on the lake managed to power their boat to shore. Within the next three hours, the entire lake disappeared into the mine. Normally, water from the lake flowed out through the Delcambre Canal to Vermilion Bay in the Gulf of Mexico. With the emptying of the lake, however, the water was flowing from the Delcambre Canal into the crater. This reverse flow continued for the next two days until the lake was once again filled with water, and the normal flow out into the canal recommenced. Approximately 30 shrimp boats in the canal, which was lined with seafood companies, were beached when the water level dropped as the canal was refilling Lake Peigneur. They were later refloated when the lake stabilized and the canal rose to its normal level." "
Mrs. Carnahan...
Before my time...
Oh, yeah. That's right.
***My sister lives in a neighboring subdivision. According to her, the talk is to see if the gov'ment might possibly chip in to help. Typical isn't it?***
I'm not knocking free enterprise, but I'm wondering what kind of environmental studies were done by the builders who developed the lake and the surrounding area. In my own area which was largely built on a reclaimed swamp, houses are sinking into the ground. And the taxpayers will have to pay for it, while the builders get off free.
hehe !
Now why does that phrase remind me of Hillary Clinton?
Red
In this case, I don't think it would have helped. The erosion may be occuring tens or even hundreds of feet down in the bedrock. If we start requiring that kind of "environmental studies", we'll never build anything again. Making the taxpayers bail them out is another matter.
God is forgiving; nature isn't. Sounds like $1000 per family is money down the sinkhole.
Murphy's law:
Any hole, no matter how small, will eventually drain any tank, no matter how large.
Unless it is intended to be a drain, in which case it will plug...
So the quick fix would have been for the drillers to declare the hole a drain as soon as the water started pouring into it. Or would some governmental body have to make an official declaration or issue a drain permit to make it kosher according to Murphy's Law?
I keep wondering WHERE all the water WENT. A 10 acre lake is a LOT of water; did it come back to the surface nearby? Maybe some other subdivision now has a brand new lake.
Yes. Exactly. But bureaucracies move too slowly...
The University of Missouri at Rolla (a WONDERFUL engineering school) has every square foot of Missouri mapped and analyzed.
When my sister had an unexpected leak in her basement, she contacted UMR and found that her house sat on an old spring. This information is there and available (for a cost of course) to all residents. If it wasn't consulted, it's the builders and the homeowner's fault.
smells like a lawsuit
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