TROUT RUN, Pa. (AP) — Officials say a bridge washed out by flooding traveled the length of a football field and ruptured a pipeline last week, spilling about 55,000 gallons of gasoline into a Pennsylvania creek.
Officials with Sunoco Logistics said Tuesday that “an object of extreme destructive force” severed the 8-inch pipeline under Wallis Run in Lycoming County. David Chalson, s Sunoco Logistics executive, says “it’s clear the bridge was responsible for the damage to the pipe.”
A storm late Thursday into Friday dumped up to 7 inches of rain on areas in western and central Pennsylvania. Flooding destroyed the bridge and damaged hundreds of homes.
Officials say water monitoring has not revealed any impact to drinking water supplies.
Sunoco plans to replace a 500-foot section of pipe and bury it 25 feet under the stream bed.
The inevitable result of abandoning infrastructure maintenance in favor of corporate profit.
“That’s okay. Let it collapse, and we’ll make money taxing the idiots for a new bridge”. — Halliburton & Halitosis contracting company.
thats because prices were at around 1.97 per gallon here.. cant have that..
“Officials say water monitoring has not revealed any impact to drinking water supplies.”
Not that it could get much worse than it already is.