The culvert was for rainwater not a leaking oil pipeline.
UPDATE: California oil spill: Up to 105,000 gallons lost - CNN.com
The spill is approximately 4 times worse than they originally thought. They now estimate it at over 100 thousand gallons.
The engineers should have recognized that the culvert is going to catch anything in the area, and send it straight out to sea. With the pipeline in that vicinity, extra precautions should have been taken.
If only they would have a similar response to the biological refuse that washes down the Los Angeles and San Gabriel "Rivers" every time it rains. The inhabitants of the barrios up river need to get as ecologically outraged over the pollution they cause as the folks along the coast of Santa Barbara are over this pipeline incident.
Interesting how countless week long beach closures because the water is unsafe for humans rarely makes the news, but one pipe line break has the environauts running around screaming the California coast has been gravely damaged.
Right. Since we are making our oceans into sewers anyway why worry about a few marine animals? In fact, why spend one penny to clean up the mess it might end up costing me more at the pump. What else matters by what it might cost ME?
Coal Oil Point seep field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This spill occurred near one of the world's largest natural oil seeps. The seeps produces somewhere between 3-17k gallons of crude into the Santa Barbara Channel everyday. So this spill is a little over 1 day's worth of natrual seepage. The world will go on.
Brilliant, I never thought of it like that. Makes me wonder why we concern ourselves with murder now sense people die everyday of natural causes anyway.
You mean the pipeline engineers because that drainage culvert likely predates the pipeline. That brings up the poor reliability of engineers to build safe pipelines, I would agree. It is too often about costs and not safety.
Yeah...because thats a valid comparison. Nice try though.
I can't say the same about your dismissal of a ruptured oil line.
Not dismissal, just adding perspective to prevent the ignorant from over blowing the significance of the event. Spill will be cleaned up and the location for it actually ideal because of the prevalence of oil consuming microorganisms due to the natural seeps. So the ecosystem will recover faster than many other locations.
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