Fuel Spill on Pool 2

Well, that sucks! Wonder if the train ended up in the river?

-J.

Wonder where the fuel mass is right now?

Sounds like the Coast Guard has the whole river shut down all the way to Hastings. If the spill happened at 2AM the fuel could be a long way down river by now.

S.R.

Wonder if that brdge being hit last fall has anything to do with it?

Good point!

The river is shut down from RM 825.0 to 832.7

One drop is too much, but thankfully it was only the tank of a locomotive that got punctured and leaked. Had a bulk fuel tanker been punctured we’d be seeing 10x this amount.

Here’s video of the scene.

https://kstp.com/news/train-derailment-leaking-fuel-into-mississippi-river/5022542/

From the video it looks like the bridge is currently under construction in the area where the derailment occurred. Likely due to the damage that occurred from the barge.

This is great…some guy named Walker Smith who is a spokesman for the MN PCA said that “oil floats on the surface of the water so it won’t harm the fish”.

OK Mr. Smith, I’m going to hand you a straw and then dump diesel fuel in your beer. Oil floats on beer so it should harm you either. Drink up!

S.R.

I’ll be staying upstream for a while. Yuck. Seems like the bridge and tracks would’ve had to have passed inspection relatively recently with the barge accident and all.