I wouldn’t go so far as to call it toxic waste but fuck anyone pouring industrial chemicals into a storm drain. That’s embarrassing for such a wealthy company.
Should be embarrassing, but it looks like business as usual. Someone obviously decided fines must just be easier to pay if they can’t even be arsed to get a city permit to store the sodium hydroxide (highly corrosive to animal and vegetable) in the first place.
Even the story they’ve come out with - that it’s all good because a fire hydrant JUST HAPPENED to open up upstream at the same time as the coolant non-toxic waste was dumped, and it really diluted all that harmless DYE so our bad for taking too long to tell you about it - is shameless.
The headline saying “gallons” doesn’t really imply “550 gallons“ which was the actual amount. That’s a lot of pollution.
You know those giant white plastic cube storage tanks that hold 1000L? They dumped the equivalent of two of those full of toxic waste.
I wouldn’t go so far as to call it toxic waste but fuck anyone pouring industrial chemicals into a storm drain. That’s embarrassing for such a wealthy company.
Should be embarrassing, but it looks like business as usual. Someone obviously decided fines must just be easier to pay if they can’t even be arsed to get a city permit to store the sodium hydroxide (highly corrosive to animal and vegetable) in the first place.
Even the story they’ve come out with - that it’s all good because a fire hydrant JUST HAPPENED to open up upstream at the same time as the
coolantnon-toxic waste was dumped, and it really diluted all that harmless DYE so our bad for taking too long to tell you about it - is shameless.Well, 12 gallons, contaminating 500 that they pumped out.
A better way to put it would to say quarter ton, since that’s what it really is
If it’s weight is anything like water, 550 gallons would weigh near 2.5 tons
Oh, that’s right! I forgot about volume!