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EPA’s guidance used to state that one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water. Unfortunately, sourcing specific federal data or r
by op00to 2y ago
EPA’s guidance used to state that one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water. Unfortunately, sourcing specific federal data or risk assessments reflecting this magnitude has become difficult, as crucial information underpinning these kinds of impact and cost projections appears to have been purged from public EPA websites over the last few months. I guess you’ll just have to deal with this when you hide information.
- gruez 2y ago>EPA’s guidance used to state that one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water. That doesn't answer my question. How did you get the "$1 billion USD" figure? It's unclear how you go from "one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water" to "Estimates for initial cleaning and restoring would be $1 billion USD". Moreover, if that's "up to" amount, then surely it only applies to the worst case, like if you dumped the oil directly into a river/ocean? The picture in the article shows there's no source of water nearby. That's not to say that it can't affect groundwater or whatever, but blindly applying "one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water" makes no sense.
- legitster 2y ago> EPA’s guidance used to state that one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water. This is a worst case scenario. It basically assumes all of the oil goes directly into a water supply - so at that point you're just calculating the dilution of benzene.
- janderson215 2y agoWhat would you posit are the median case and the best case scenarios?