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Re: (erielack) Fuel prices

 
In a message dated 3/31/2008 11:09:01 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
wsmith5957_@_hotmail.com writes:

I guess  it all eventually went into the nearby Susquehanna since there was 
no EPA or  cleanup booms to gather it up.


Maybe, maybe not. I suspect that is what the railroad  thought.
Depending on soil temperature and permeability, the diesel  fuel may have 
collected, or stayed in pools underground.  
 
Examples include several "product" wells in both  Livingston and Havre 
Montana (and a number of locations in New Jersey that  I am aware of) where leaked 
diesel is pumped out of the ground by shallow 30-to  65-foot deep wells, and 
into settling tanks to strain out the  gunk, and "revived" to be used again, 
after some 40-to-20 years in storage  underground on top of shale, clay, or other 
impervious layers.  
The more exciting ones are when gasoline is ignighted out  of someone's 
kitchen water tap from a city well (and that happened about 10  years after the 
areas' retail station had been out of business). 
 
That is not near as bad as working with electric locomotives  such as those 
on the Milwaukee (GN, BAP, NYC or PRR).  Those  transformers used an oil as 
coolant because it could get very hot without  changing to a vapor-- 
poly-chloro-biphenols, or PCBsa. When these oils needed to  be replaced, the plug(s) were 
removed, and oil drained onto the ground (or old  ash pit) where it remained 
decades later. 
I have no idea what coolant the DLW MU cars used to cool  electrical 
equipment, but I do not think it was PCB oil. 
Kind of makes me feel like the parent that finds out ten years  later about 
all the things the teenagers did while I was supposedly  looking.  Oh, the joys 
of not knowing, or ignorance is bliss. 
 
 H Haines, Montana



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