Northern Alberta Surface Water Study

Now, Jim worked for one of these plants in late 1995 through 1996. In his time working there, he witnessed a breach in the spill containment berm surrounding the plant (see video documentation here). The breach was in the southeast corner of the processing plant property near the flare stack. For the time he was working there, and any time afterwards, the breach was never repaired. The plant had been struck by lightning two times prior to 2000, which caused a leak of contaminants. June of 2000 brought a lot of rain to the area (four inches), and a spring runoff to the west of Jim's house (also the direction of the plant he worked at) was flowing with water for the first time in many years. There is also a field in the southwest direction of Jim's house where a fenced in area was put up at this time by one of Jim's neighbors, an owner of a herd of cattle. Around mid to late June fifty cows with calves were placed in this fenced in area to feed on the brome grass. The field was never disturbed prior to this other than for harvest. Read on at the website: http://nasws.freelancepartnership.com/drupal/ [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on July 5, 2007]

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