from Houston Chronicle
Posted by
cypresstx on 9/21/2019, 9:57 am
it's not the most recent article they did on it, but it's the most comprehensive:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/Breakaway-barges-knock-out-I-10-bridge-traffic-14455790.php
the lead author, transportion writer for Houston Chronicle https://twitter.com/dugbegley
just one bit from it:
The cause of the breakaway barges remains under review. Joe Tyson, senior vice president of Canal Barge Company, which owns the vessels, said the company is cooperating fully. A vendor that oversees the mooring of the barges together did take normal precautions during Imeldas deluge, he said, including using two lines to affix the barges.
The three barges that remain an issue were carrying a variety of chemical cargoes, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. One that hit the bridge was carrying 17,000 barrels of monoethylene glycol, a component used in antifreeze. The other was loaded with 10,000 barrels of naphtha, a highly-flammable hydrocarbon compound used for solvents and the production of gasoline.
it's like potentially explosive bumper cars with bridges, in a toxic land, dotted with superfund sites, every time it floods here (alot)
another one of the runaway barges landed on the San Jacinto River Waste Pits superfund site https://www.epa.gov/tx/sjrwp?id=0606611 it was very recently removed from the National Priorities List just a few months ago, because an agreement for cleanup was approved (estimated to take 29 months at that time)
we have more sf sites here, including many that have been flooded by the four 500-yr floods of the past five years alone
https://www.tceq.texas.gov/remediation/superfund/sites/county/harris.html
https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live
https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/map-superfund-enforcement-cleanup-work
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