Spoiled by pollution

[Jaeger]

Well I took a walk with the dog down to the stream behind the house yesterday and before I got to it I smelled fuel oil or fumes.  I was still about 40 vertical feet above the stream.  It cuts through a gorge between the mountain.  I went down to the stream and it was worse!

 

I checked the bridge later and there it was in an eddy, a big covering of some sort of oil.

 

We had an oil truck accident on Monday but I guess it took until yesterdays rains to run into the stream, the entire gorge stinks and my weekend trout fishing is to be abandoned.  Probably for the rest of the spring and summer as well.

 

I called last eve to report it to the local DEC fisheries. I'll see if they call back today.

 

Someone should have to pay dearly for this pollution!!!!

[Curmudgeon]

Is that from the fuel oil truck that rolled over in Delaware County?

 

From the Oneonta Daily Star:

 

Fuel-truck driver faces charges after crash, spill

STAFF REPORT

The driver of a fuel delivery truck that overturned Monday morning near Stamford has been charged with speeding and other traffic violations, according to a Tuesday media release from the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office.

The wreck — which occurred at about 10 a.m. in the town of Harpersfield on state Highway 23 — involved a JK & Sons Oil Inc. delivery truck that overturned, spilling about 2,500 gallons of home heating oil onto the road, the release said. This resulted in state Route 23 being shut down for several hours.

The driver of the vehicle, Bryant Hunt, 46, of Roxbury, was issued traffic summonses for speed not reasonable and prudent, failure to keep right, unsafe tire, failure to have proper hazardous material placards, a broken front leaf spring and inadequate brakes, the release said. The company Hunt drives for, JK & Sons, is based in Margaretville, deputies said.

Deputies were assisted at the scene by the state police Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit, state Department of Environmental Conservation, Stamford Fire Department, Hobart Fire Department, Delaware County Hazmat team, Cooperstown Medical Transport, state Department of Transportation and the Town of Harpersfield Highway Department, the release said.

The cleanup of the home heating oil was completed by DEC and Boyle Excavating of Harpersfield.

Hunt is scheduled to answer the violations at 7 p.m. April 25 at the Town of Harpersfield Court.

[Five Seasons]

there's a certain group on this website that would be ranting and raving if your tax dollars were used to introduce legislation or safeguards to prevent this from happening. Why that's the case is confusing to me. As hunters and fisherman I feel like we'd all be for anything we could do to prevent these occurrences.

[Uptown Redneck]

Unfortunately no new law can keep someone from driving recklessly, as we all see pretty much everyday as we drive to wherever we all must get to. Now I must be leaving to join said reckless drivers as we all race home from work.   

[mmkay]

How could tax dollars have prevented this?. Tax could be used for the clean up, but the one who caused the spill should be forced to reemburse the public

[mike rossi]

there's a certain group on this website that would be ranting and raving if your tax dollars were used to introduce legislation or safeguards to prevent this from happening. Why that's the case is confusing to me. As hunters and fisherman I feel like we'd all be for anything we could do to prevent these occurrences.

 

I think I figured it out. There is a fiction book called "Wise Use". Look it up

 

(moving forward look it up will be LIU)

[G-Man]

Here is the problem, dec who ever one thinks is just game wardens ,will be heavily involved in this and massive funds will be used to maybe be recovered by company involved in spill will most.likely be some fine and settlement.. we really need to seperate the game and fishery from environmental pollution control..

[EspressoBuzz]

Often the first reaction to this sort of this is thoughts about making a law. However a closer look will show that the real solution to the problem is not more regulation, but regulation enforcement. Most pollution happens when no one is looking or someone isn't being inspected. For years the way to kill any effect of regulation is to choke off its funding.