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Investigators blaming oil spill from sewer pipe for gull kill on Cuyahoga River
Cleveland Plain Dealer ^
| June 26, 2009
| Michael Scott
Posted on 06/27/2009 5:41:35 PM PDT by 10Ring
CLEVELAND — Investigators said this afternoon that several hundred gallons of what appears to be a type of cooking oil pouring out of a sewer pipe has killed or disabled hundreds of gulls on the Cuyahoga River.
The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District had called the Ohio EPA on Wednesday to report that the substance was pouring into the river out of a storm sewer near the Kingsbury Run tributary, EPA officials said.
Sewer workers were using an oil/trash containment boom to contain and collect the oil, but at some point the oil got out from under the boom and into the river, EPA spokesman Mike Settles said in an e-mail.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cleanwateract
Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Cuyahoga catching on fire. Oh yeah, it's cooking oil, so let's interrogate the folks who run the steel mill. I also like the video at the link where they show some dead birds along with a ton of other solid matter floating around.
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posted on
06/27/2009 5:41:36 PM PDT
by
10Ring
To: 10Ring
Vegetable oil is used in a lot of industrial processes as a more environmental alternative. Back when I was in plastics we had some presses that used it.
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posted on
06/27/2009 5:51:18 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: 10Ring
And we’re worried about gulls kicking off because? To me it’s about the same as saying several hundred rats died because of a rat plague.
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posted on
06/27/2009 5:53:28 PM PDT
by
saganite
(What would Sully do?)
To: 10Ring
Now the lord can make you tumble
And the lord can make you turn
And the lord can make you overflow
But the lord can’t make you burn
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posted on
06/27/2009 5:55:37 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
To: saganite
That’s the best part of the article...the Ohio Department of Wildlife was contacted to help the gulls. They decided it would be better to just euthanize the gulls...since they also have a program in place to destroy gull eggs and control the population.
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posted on
06/27/2009 5:56:34 PM PDT
by
10Ring
To: cripplecreek; 10Ring
It could be rapeseed (Canola) oil used as an industrial lubricant.
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posted on
06/27/2009 5:58:37 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
To: saganite
yeah, sounds like win-win to me...
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:00:04 PM PDT
by
castlebrew
(Gun control means hitting where you're aiming!)
To: 10Ring
Police are on the look out for this guy...
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:00:23 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: 10Ring
Wouldn’t it be ironic if they were controlling the gull population by spraying their eggs with vegetable oil like they do with swans and other pest birds.
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:05:31 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: 10Ring
Good ridance, they are the welfare cases of the bird world!
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:05:47 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: saganite
Mine!
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:10:18 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
To: 10Ring
"cooking oil pouring out of a sewer pipe has killed or disabled hundreds of gulls on the Cuyahoga River." I wonder where I could buy some of this stuff?
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:11:02 PM PDT
by
norwaypinesavage
(Global Warming Theory is extremely robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it)
To: 10Ring
Gulls are rats with wings. You call a half million and never make a dent in their population.
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:16:10 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
To: 10Ring
Oh now that is just too funny!
I have got to send this on to my family in Cleveland.
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:22:17 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
To: Jeff Chandler
Burn on, big river, burn on.
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posted on
06/27/2009 7:39:41 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: saganite
And we’re worried about gulls kicking off because?They are certainly not an endangered species along Lake Erie. Did you see the ones in S America that are starting to chomp on the whales when they surface?
To: dalereed
We call them s***hawks around here.
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posted on
06/27/2009 8:04:42 PM PDT
by
healy61
To: healy61
“We call them s***hawks around here.”
I had one drop a “bomb” into my lunch when I was in high school!
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posted on
06/27/2009 8:11:23 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: 10Ring
Those sky rats are not exactly an endangered species.
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posted on
06/28/2009 8:10:22 AM PDT
by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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