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Jpeach's avatar

They are trucking 2 million gallons of East Palestine contaminated water to a Baltimore water treatment plant (that has questionable facilities), that will be treated and released into a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. This sounds like another totally insane idea.

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These tank cars are also designed and built to retain their integrity in the event of an accident. Fill valves and relief valves are protected, and the type of steel the tank is made from does not shred into shrapnel if the tank is over pressurized to the point of failure, but would simply split open. Cooling any tanks that were in danger of overheating with fire hoses would have been more than adequate.

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