Aliceville a day after "repairs"

Aliceville a day after "repairs"

After my trip to Aliceville on Sunday, 03/02/14 I posted the results of the trip as being far less then cleaned up.

I returned a couple of days later for followup after a rain event. When I got there it was obvious that someone had been there since my last visit. There was some new boom in place in a few places as well as a new string of "pom-pom" booms had been placed around the tracks. There had been a fairly significant rain event Sunday night and Monday so in all likelihood the repairs were made on Tuesday. There was a lot of oil gone but I can't say whether they cleaned it up or the rain washed it through the wetland downstream.

It was good to see some degree of effort but it was minimal at best. Oil was still weeping out of the  ground with sheen on the surface.

 

Downstream of the tracks the new products seemed to be containing the oil for the time being but more oil was pouring of of the ground fast enough to see with the naked eye.

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As the sun warmed the soil, the crude came out faster. It's hard to say when if ever this will stop.

On the upstream side of the tracks there had been some boom replaced up close but the outside perimeter screens were down and or flapping in the breeze. Some oil collected in this fabric is being released back into the water when the wind blows it high enough to start flapping. Try wetting a towel and snap the water out of it, you'll probably get wet. Same principal.

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Weathered oil could be seen inside and outside the containment.

It seems to me like if they were going to go to the effort of replacing the products along the tracks it would be more feasible to complete the job all round instead of piecemeal slap and dash repairs.