Bayou Corne & Lake Peigneur LA,
Daisetta TX, and Cuylerville, NY?
Sites of Salt dome storage facilities.
Many people are now becoming aware of the plan for Inergy, LLC
to use abandoned salt mines along the west bank of Seneca Lake
near Watkins Glen for storage of LPG or NGLs.
gasfreeseneca.com
Many are also aware of the connection to the unfolding
story of a massive sinkhole at a similar storage facility
at Bayou Corne, Assumption Parrish LA.
https://www.google.com/search?q=bayou+corne+sinkhole
A new (historical) salt mine disaster has hit my radar,
this one in Cuylerville, NY, along the Genesee River at the
Akzo (Retsof) mine (1994).
http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20130317%2FOPINION%2F130319550
``On March 12, 1994, an acre of the mine's ceiling collapsed, attributed to over-mining and
under-regulation, causing fractures in the bedrock and inflow of water from an overlying glacial
aquifer. Despite Akzo's pumping millions of gallons of salt water into the Genesee River to save
the mine, it was completely flooded by January 1996.
The collapse affected the overlying structures of bedrock, glacial soils and water to the point that
farm fields ruptured, sinkholes opened up, bridges, roads and foundations settled and cracked.
Wells went dry or were contaminated with salt, barium and methane gas. The mine is now filled
with 16 billion gallons of saturated halite brine.``
under-regulation, causing fractures in the bedrock and inflow of water from an overlying glacial
aquifer. Despite Akzo's pumping millions of gallons of salt water into the Genesee River to save
the mine, it was completely flooded by January 1996.
The collapse affected the overlying structures of bedrock, glacial soils and water to the point that
farm fields ruptured, sinkholes opened up, bridges, roads and foundations settled and cracked.
Wells went dry or were contaminated with salt, barium and methane gas. The mine is now filled
with 16 billion gallons of saturated halite brine.``
Lake Peigneur disaster (1980)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddlrGkeOzsI
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur#Drilling_disaster
Daisetta Texas sinkhole (1981).
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