摘要: |
A barge carrying methanol that lodged against the McAlpine Dam on the Ohio River near Louisville, Ky., has been removed with no leaks detected. The barge carrying approximately 1,400 metric tons of liquid methanol was successfully removed about 3 p.m. April 8 after the methanol was offloaded into a receiver barge. It and two other barges, both containing corn, had become pinned against the dam, at Ohio River Mile 606.8, after breaking away from a tow March 28. Louisville Metro Emergency Services said there was no indication any of the methanol barge's cargo tanks were ever breached and that testing results never showed any detectable methanol in the air or water. More than 3,000 air quality samples were taken in addition to water quality samples from five locations below the dam. |