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Originally Posted by Schrup
I hope things have greatly improved over the last 13 years since I got out of the industry. I witnessed a lot of spills, both military & civilian. When I was stationed at Ramstein, we had a 24" cargo apron split. 50K gallons of JP4 in & above ground. The locals were not pleased with the lake of jet fuel.
We retrofit countless gas stations that leaked for years & did a lot of soil remediation for a large airplane company. Allegedly one of the superfund sites was used by the company for summer picnics, they lit the ponds of waste on fire.
Even with new tech, accidents still happen. Guy mismeasured the turbine pump 4 inches too long at a new gas station, installs it into the fiberglass tank & goes home. The next day everyone wonders where the 8K gallons of gasoline went.
As long as peolpe are running the show there will be spills.
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can't argue with none of this-I only do cross-country pipelines and am not really qualified to say yea or nay about the spills you speak of here.