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Date: October 13, 2012 at 05:14:43
From: Bill Silver Eagle, [DNS_Address]
Subject: 25 foot pipeline section floats to sinkhole surface |
URL: http://www.examiner.com/article/25-foot-pipeline-section-floats-to-sinkhole-surface?cid=PROD-redesign-right-next |
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October 11, 2012By: Deborah Dupre
A twenty-five foot section of a pipe identified as part of Acadian Gas pipeline floated to the surface of the Bayou Corne sinkhole Wednesday after cleanup of the slurry hole in northern Assumption Parish was indefinitely halted, according to parish officials.
"A 25-foot section of pipeline identified as part of Acadian Gas pipeline floated to the surface of the Bayou Corne sinkhole, on the edge of the pipeline right-of-way, officials reported Wednesday.
"The pipeline was emptied previously," officials stated, saying that is what made it become buoyant.
"[S]ince the sinkhole occurred, there is no earthen cover to keep the pipeline submerged," officials said in a blog post.
"The risks associated with this incident is for workers in the sinkhole that they dont run into/over the floating pipe. Safety measures are being taken at the site to avoid the risk."
According to officials, a portion of the sinkhole edge, about 50-foot-long, went under Tuesday near pipeline corridors running along the western edge of the slurry hole.
That means another 500 square feet of land and trees were pulled down into the monster hole with a seemingly insatiable appetite for the environment.
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Date: October 13, 2012 at 05:17:13
From: Bill Silver Eagle, [DNS_Address]
Subject: La. sinkhole was predicted, grows 500 square feet larger after seismic |
URL: http://www.examiner.com/article/la-sinkhole-was-predicted-grows-500-square-feet-larger-after-seismic-activity |
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La. sinkhole was predicted, grows 500 square feet larger after seismic activity
Louisiana's giant sinkhole in Assumption Parish expanded 500 square feet Tuesday morning, according to officials. Earlier Tuesday, amid debating whether earthquakes caused the nearby breached salt cavern to fail, extra seismic activity was recorded, according to USGS monitors observed by this reporter, also noting that in 2010, experts foretold a methane crisis, one saying a methane-caused sinkhole could result from BP's oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.
"A 10 x 50 foot slough in of (sic) the sinkhole on the SW side (towards the pipeline right-of-way, the 50 is along the embankment of the hole)," Assumption Parish officials reported Tuesday, Oct. 9.
View slideshow: Bayou Corne, Louisiana methane & earthquake sinkhole disaster on Oct. 11, 2012
Five trees along with more land were lost during during what officials call another "slough in," and "Clean up has been halted until further notice," the officials said.
The slough-in occurred around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to parish officials on their blog post.
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Date: October 13, 2012 at 05:20:42
From: Bill Silver Eagle, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Sinkhole gas flaring to begin |
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Sinkhole gas flaring to begin, number of people suffering poisoning mounts
Assumption parish residents, dozens reporting sicknesses and showing signs of poisoning, are bracing for the Shaw Group, contracted by Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, to begin flaring natural gas from two relief/vent wells at the Bayou Corne sinkhole site as early as Friday, but scientists say those fires will not impact nearby methane gas percolating in over twenty places.
The gas from two wells at the Bayou Corne sinkhole disaster site will be flared through a single portable flare as early as Friday, according to officials Tuesday night at a resident briefing.
The DNR contracted vent/relief well with gas inside is north of Hwy. La. 70 South, in the still expanding over 4-acre sinkhole vicinity but east of the most populated portion of Bayou Corne community. The Texas Brine boring is in that same area but south of La. 70.
Relief well #2 has a 5 foot natural gas column near the top of the shallow groundwater aquifer. Texas Brine does not own, but is instead leasing the property that has a 10 foot natural gas column, according to Louisiana Environmental Action Network.
Shaw officials contracted by Louisiana Department of Natural Resources told approximately 100 residents gathered at the meeting Tuesday that the well north of La. 70 and another drilled on the same site would be linked to a flare to begin removing the gas gradually.
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