LittleIrishTurnip
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My hometown had a horrendous disaster yesterday, which caused multiple fatalities, and incredible grief through out our pulp and paper industry town. Just about everyone I know has worked in the industry in one way or another, myself included.
We were told everything was fine and there is no threat to the community.
This is the aquifer that supplies the town with water. Nearly a million gallons of white liquor-- basically Dran-O-- went into the Columbia River and into the sloughs used for our storm water dyking system. This aquifer is RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM NIPPON.
If there is no threat... Why is the city turning off the water in the neighborhoods closest to the site, without telling us???
We have lost so much by just losing the members of our community... but now we are just without water, for apparently 'no reason?'
Imgur, make it make sense!
wadatahmydamie
$50 says the bag of salted dicks who owns Pacific Fibre over on Columbia/Industrial Way is thrilled by this
Fun fact: If you look at them on street view, it still has a sign saying “Make Gas and Groceries Affordable Again, Vote Trump 2024” 🤡
Targe0
Turning water supply off when there is a contaminate is standard procedure.
Doesn't mean it's a danger, they just do it so they can purge the system and flush out the contaminants.
It's a safety measure to make sure no one gets harmed by it, if the situation is worse than they understand.
foxpotate
Did they tell you "there is no danger to the public"? If so: fucking run. Governments only use that exact phrase when they know you are as fucked as that train derailment in ohio or windscale in Britain.
QuantumInc
What do you expect them to say if there is actually no danger to the public? I don't trust governments either these days but that is absurd logic. Maybe if it was intentionally misleading, but for outright lies you cannot tell if it is a lie from the phrasing.
WaxDragon
Oh hey, I grew up there! Was alright. I guess I wouldn't drink the tap anymore
NVGoddesscottage
The most terrifying sentence I ever heard was at a public hearing on data. Centers from a young PhD working on a second PhD(engineering and environmental reclamation) student was “I keep hearing you say ‘if there’s contamination then…’ Then what? We do not know how to reclaim water once the contamination happens. You going to fine them? You can’t drink money, but your water supply is done.”
QuantumInc
#3 If you are going to include an image like that, you need enough pixels to read the text. There are different levels of danger. Some where "no threat to the community" is mostly true, but it still makes sense to take precautions. It could also be that there is "no threat to the community" BECAUSE they turned the water off. It could also just mean that asking the entire community to take action would be an overreaction, so sit tight and let the pros do their job.
LittleIrishTurnip
Reverse image search it if you can’t handle it.
sirbartonslady
A friend of mine lives just minutes from that facility and was hugely worried because his boyfriend works at a nearby facility and was at work at the time. Things ended okay for them, but he was badly shaken because, well, in another timeline, his BF would've been working THERE and maybe hurt or killed in that. This new information is distressing for me on their behalf. :(
LittleIrishTurnip
Later on, after my entire area of the city freaked out, they said they were pumping water away from the site… which likely means pumping it into the Columbia river— which partly feeds the aquifer the disaster site
Sits on. We are beyond fucked.
ChadMaxxington
Is there a new data center around? Just asking
LittleIrishTurnip
No, thankfully
bbrtki
They would say that.
Doesn't mean it's true.
breakingcode
US Gov: "It's ok, there's nothing to worry about! No pedophile billionaires were dependent on that water,.. so this is a NON-ISSUE as far as the government is concerned,.. move along, nothing to see here."
Whitebeardthepirate
*then when the people snap, mob up and attack them on masse* "WHAT DID WE EVER DO TO DESERVE THIS?!"
breakingcode
That's why they're so hell bent on building thousands of "Fusion Centers". Now that they have almost everything of ours, people are starting to rise up as they take the rest. They need a 100% coverage surveillance state to make any uprising is impossible.
People: "We need a community Garden" Gov: "Ok that's 7 years of study, permits, approvals, red tape etc..
People: "We don't want a data center." Gov: "Too bad we have a 1 pg study, blanket approvals, w/no permits or taxes it was DONE by EOB."
Roqinn
I bet that city smells like mine did. I live in a city that was a big paper manufacturer and it STANK!
iusedtodream
Rotten eggs for days.
brokehackfourlane
not to minimize this incident, but the chemical involved is a simple alkali, easily neutralized and will have no long term effect on the environment or drinking water.
LittleIrishTurnip
Can you explain in detail how they could have neutralized half a million plus gallons before it went into the ground and the river. Or before it killed all those people?
brokehackfourlane
what people now?
LittleIrishTurnip
Eleven people died.
brokehackfourlane
Oh, ok. they drowned.
LittleIrishTurnip
Fuck you
Exyr
My cousin moved to Longview like 15 years ago because of all the meth. She reallllly liked meth.
HowManyDicksWouldaDickbuttButtIfaDickbuttCouldButtDicks
About 20 years ago a high school classmate of mine got busted selling meth to a UC there. I wonder if they knew each other.
LittleIrishTurnip
That’s a pretty common theme around here, unfortunately. Especially since this is such a beautiful community.
Exyr
Yeah I used to drive by there every once in a while on my way up to Astoria. Aslways seemed like a place id like.
LittleIrishTurnip
Most of Longview is pretty great. Very walkable— it takes me 45 minutes to walk from one end of town to our twin city of Kelso. And you go thru the whole downtown area. I’m worried this disaster may be the beginning of the end of industry here. No pulp and paper equals no Longview.