SHELBY COUNTY, Ala. —Colonial Pipeline is conducting excavation activities to investigate the source of a gasoline leak in a remote area of Shelby County.
Colonial employees and contractors are responding in cooperation with the EPA, Shelby County EMA, Cahaba Riverkeeper, and the Helena, Pelham, volunteer County 17 fire departments.Colonial's two pipelines in the area were initially shut down during the investigation.
Currently one pipeline has resumed operations as it is not involved in the incident.Officials said there are no threats to the public at this time and the situation has been contained to the incident site.Colonial crews working overnight recovered gasoline from a pond on the site and will continue cleanup efforts Saturday.Equipment associated with the response is using Coalmont Road between County Road 270 and the Wildlife Management Area Firing Range in Shelby County. This section of Coalmont Road is subject to restricted access.
http://www.wvtm13.com/news/gasoline-pipeline-leak-discovered-in-shelby-county/41612784
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More than 200m gallons of contaminated wastewater from a fertilizer plant in central Florida leaked into one of the state’s main underground sources of drinking water after a huge sinkhole opened up beneath a storage pond, a phosphate company said on Friday.
Mosaic, the world’s largest supplier of phosphate, said the hole opened up beneath a pile of waste material called a “gypsum stack”. The 215m gallon storage pond sat atop the waste mineral pile. The company said the sinkhole was about 45ft in diameter.
Mosaic said it was monitoring groundwater and had found no offsite impacts.
“Groundwater moves very slowly,” said David Jellerson, Mosaic’s senior director for environmental and phosphate projects. “There’s absolutely nobody at risk.”
The water had been used to transport the gypsum, which is a byproduct of fertilizer production, the company said.
The sinkhole, discovered by a worker on 27 August, is believed to reach down to the Floridan aquifer, the company said in a news release. Aquifers are vast, underground systems of porous rocks that hold water and allow water to move through the holes within the rock.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/17/florida-sinkhole-wastewater-leak-drinking-water
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Quote:WOW!!! Was that in Jacksonville where most sink holes are? I didn't even hear about this yet!!!