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Buy The Drip: Thousands Of Gallons Of Oil Spill Into Ohio River Upstream Of Cincinnati
Lately it is not just trains blowing up across the country in the ongoing effort to prove just how safer rail transport is for crude oil transit compared to pipelines: as citizens of Cincinatti found out this morning, their drinking water may come with an added kick after thousands of gallons of diesel fuel spilled out onto the Ohio River after an incident at a power plant early Tuesday. According to WCPO, the Coast Guard said it estimated about 8,000 gallons of fuel spilled out from Duke Energy’s W.C. Beckjord power station outside of Cincinnati.
The bad news for Ohians, especially those living in Cincinatti, is that the spill took place upstream, and rather close to the city:
The spill was first reported at about 12:20 a.m. Tuesday. The plant is about 20 miles southeast but upstream of Cincinnati. Duke Energy later released a statement saying the spill happened at about 11:15 p.m. Monday.
The company said the spill happened during a routine transfer of fuel oil. Duke estimated about 5,000 gallons was discharged into the river. Crews were able to stop the release by 11:30 p.m.
Duke said it notified local, state and environmental agencies promptly to take action.
“We notified state and local authorities of the incident and have been working with them throughout the overnight hours,” Chuck Whitlock, Duke Energy president of Midwest Commercial Generation and vice president of gas operations, said in a release. “We have cleanup crews on site that are identifying the appropriate actions that will be needed to remediate.”
Surprisingly, it is America after all where nothing is every anyone's fault, Duke Energy stepped up and admitted it was accountable:
Duke Energy assumed responsibility for the cleanup and Coast Guard officials said a spill response organization has been contacted to begin operations. The Hamilton County Emergency Management Agency said the spill happened when a secondary containment unit failed to contain the fuel when it was released due to an open valve.
Officials said the fuel ran down a hill before entering the river.
HCEMA officials said Coast Guard crews could detect a sheen and detect a diesel odor for about 1 to 2 miles downstream of the facility.
Officials said the Clean Harbors cleanup organization dispatched three boats to recover the fuel.
So now that we know who's responsible, the question is what happens to the drinking water:
Waterworks officials said water quality scientists are monitoring the river, along with the Northern Kentucky Water District, to determine whether the water is safe. Workers said the agencies will continue to take water samples until the threat is determined to be gone. Tony Parrott, head of Greater Cincinnati Water Works, said the department was notified of the spill just after midnight.
Parrott said crews shut down the Ohio River intakes quickly so none of the spill was taken in. He said they expected the spill would arrive at the waterworks at about 7 a.m.
Others, however, such as Cincinatti.com decided that there is no time like the present to ease people's minds, and promptly reported that despite the thousands of spilled gallons, it is ok to drink the water:
Parrott says that reserves were near capacity and Water Works will be able to remain operating with the river intakes closed for some time.
Due to the reserves, drinking water is safe.
Or in other words, buy the drip.
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It's "Racial", no doubt.
I'm sure the MSM will sniff it out.....
Why in the phuk are we still burning this shit? Natty is cheaper than dirt and immensely cleaner....
whatch the "clean" alternative...(part 2, nice sayings in it about calls from up above to the EPA telling them not to investigate further about the drinking water quality...go to 1:48:35 or 1:52:25)
www.thoughtmaybe.com/gasland2/
"...Thousands Of Gallons Of Oil Spill Into Ohio River..."
So, the Ohio River is now cleaner than it was prior to the spill?
Might actually improve the taste of Skyline Chili.
It'll take more than diesel fuel to dissolve that heap of cheese crowning that bowl of beanless slop.....
This plant is/was a coal fired plant. The diesel fuel would probably be for machinery use, not generation.
Because the energy density of "natty" is horrible in comparison to oil or coal, it requires an extraordinary amount of energy to liquify it and storage of LNG is extremely prohibitive.
OH NO !!!
Burning River II ...
Set that bitch on fire, for old time's sake.
pods
Beat me to it, the "love canal" lives on on...
Mmm, water tastes like happy.
One teaspoon of oil will make 10,000 gallons of water unsafe to drink...
Let's wait and see Cincinnati = Drink Old No. 7
(or is it No. 2?)
Duke needs the write off while some poor bastard in Bug Tussle Arkansas gets fined 10,000 a day by the local environmental Stasi for storing rain water on his land. "Government oversight" ranks right up there with Military Intelligence on the WTF meter.
Hell, no! FREE OIL, MFers!
Pump & Store, Use or Trade, bitchez. Free Petro-Dollars.
Cuyahoga anyone? That would have been Cleveland- the other side of the State.
Corexite will fix this. Nevermind the floating fish.
And here in NY if your "check engine" light is on you can't get an "insprction sticker" because your car might emit a single microscopic spec of dust that could destroy the entire planet and kill everyone on it. But if you're a company paying off a bunch of corrupt political traitors you can dump toxic shit anywhere you want.
Yes, New York is "progressive" like that.
It's not just NY. It's here too, but only in one county. While I keep my '92 in good mechanical condition, if the check engine light ever came on and I determined that nothing was really wrong, I'd just disconnect the bulb.
Of course, the fines for dumping are usually less than proper disposal fees - how does that keeps happening?
Did you fail the smog test? When I was in CA, I registered my 87 Grand National out in a county that didn't have smog rules. Get a PO box and use that address.
Might not work in NY I dunno...
The coast guard in Cincinatti? lol
Yes they handle rivers too. The gov. wants a finger in every pie.
I guess Tyler and some of you dont know how to spell Cincinnati.
No wonder this country is in the crapper. Without your crapple i-device doing your spell check for you, spelling iz hard.
Diesel fuel? Yeah, your nose is good enough to tell you if the water is safe to drink. That shit stinks.
Well, thats one way to get around building a pipeline I guess...just skim that shit off at a refinery down river and call it a day?
Probably some fat union fuck that screwed up, and could give a shit because he didn't get his full 15 min coffee break.
Bullish for all the Krugmanite creative destruction.
Same incompetent fucks operating nuke plants. Sweet dreams.
Double 'N' single 'T' -- well-done to all the ZHer's who spelt it correctly when it wrong in the headline.
It's just like Mothman! Great tragedy on the river Ohio....
Those rivers are already destroyed. A few thousand gallons of diesel might actually make it better.
That was my thought while crossing the bridge this morning. The river did look nice and shiny.
What bridge did you cross? It was foggy here this morning.
Little goddamn pollution never hurt anybody. These goddamn eco watermelons try to scare everybody into worrying about pollution but look at the goddamn Chinks, they eat and drink more goddamn pollution in a week than the average soft American drinks in their goddamn life and these goddamn echo watermelons are still bitching that the water isn't clean enough. If the goddamn Chinks aren't dead yet what's the goddamn problem? There isn't one, you figure it out.
How come you never hear about a money spill?
Because it's a continuous event, so nobody even notices anymore. It's the fountain of perpetual "Keynesian" prosperity spraying out of The Fed.
...and my wife wonders why I have so much water stored.
In making Homer a working at a Nuke Plant, there was absolutely no irony.
*Cincinnati
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2014/08/19/oil-spill-reported-on-oh...
This is very small beer in the larger scheme of things spilled into the Ohio River. In January 1988, when we lived in Pittsburgh, a huge diesel storage tank collapsed and dumped 800,000 gallons of ice cold diesel into the Monongahela River which then emptied the giant slug of heavy goo into the bottom the Ohio River where it moved downstream like a giant sausage. The National Guard jumped up with enormous pump-equiped trucks hauling long stacks of 8" connect-a-pipe which they used to supply good water to shutdown water treatment plants. While the NG crews hopscotched the rolling mess of oil downstream around closed off city water intakes, the breweries in western New York and Pennsylvania - Miller, Genny, Iron City, Rolling Rock.... shut down the fermenters and bottled pure water. They shipped the water to effected communities in their fleet of beer trucks and provided it all for free.
This 8000 gallons reported here is a rinse and spit in the Ohio River's history... see a copy of the report on the 800K gallon incident at-
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8Q...
Everything is safe! No harm was done! It's all good!
Scientists are baffled as why guts have rotted out with cancers everywhere.
DUK still going up. Wrote some calls though.
where is this "Cincinatti" of which you speak?
Another Ohio town has it's drinking water threatened by an algae bloom:
http://www.norwalkreflector.com/article/4842561
Fire Duke Energy on the spot.
When city & county lets the water be poisoned, are citizens expected to pay for a water bill? Fracking already brought flaming water faucets, so why do citizens have to pay a water bill for a toxic tap? Cleanup costs will be passed onto consumers in higher fees by the polluters. Polluting stunts like this should be subject to the 1X strike rule; one spill and you are out; permanently. No company is irreplaceable.
Fire Duke Energy on the spot.