Even more Diesel

[David]

Hi

Saturday afternoon a major spill of diesel occured at the petrol Station about 1/4 mile Bardridge side of Calveley,we moorers at Calveley called BW when the stink of fuel on the water alerted us all to the spill and the local on call banksman came down to see. Whilst talking to us he had a call from his office to say the EA had called in a major polution spill at the garage. By this time the smell was most nausuating and despite the heat of the day doors and windows had to be closed. We today found out that NW Farmers had reported the spill to the EA who had in turn called BW, incidentally no one from EA turned up until Sunday according to the NW Farmers official we spoke to today (see further down).

The BW local guy went down to the garage to investigate and found that a emergency clean up team had arrived (later discovered they had been called in by North West Farmers) to do what they could to clean up the spill from an unloading tanker into a surface mounted tank, the tanker was from NW farmers just on the other side of the canal. The team had bunded off the land drain into the canal and place soak-up pads etc, our BW guy went down to Bunbury and placed a bund and soak up on the wier alongside the locks. Later that day the team called out by NWF toured the canal laying soak up pads in the catch points at the front and sterns of moored boats they continued this yesterday and were back again today still laying long floating "snakes" of soak ups when we left.

Before we left a gang of "suits" turned up and walked the Calveley mooring, I and another moorer elicited from them they were BW, NWF, EA and NWF insurance Loss Adjuster. The loss adjuster when asked confirmed they were aware that diesel strips bitumen and gave out his cards so that when he and the parties involved established liability he was happy for us to contact him for details of who to bill if we wanted to make compensation claims.

david

P.S.

Spraying with washing up liquid compounds the pollution and should not be done.

[billh]

Hi

Saturday afternoon a major spill of diesel occured at the petrol Station about 1/4 mile Bardridge side of Calveley,we moorers at Calveley called BW when the stink of fuel on the water alerted us all to the spill and the local on call banksman came down to see. Whilst talking to us he had a call from his office to say the EA had called in a major polution spill at the garage. By this time the smell was most nausuating and despite the heat of the day doors and windows had to be closed. We today found out that NW Farmers had reported the spill to the EA who had in turn called BW, incidentally no one from EA turned up until Sunday according to the NW Farmers official we spoke to today (see further down).

The BW local guy went down to the garage to investigate and found that a emergency clean up team had arrived (later discovered they had been called in by North West Farmers) to do what they could to clean up the spill from an unloading tanker into a surface mounted tank, the tanker was from NW farmers just on the other side of the canal. The team had bunded off the land drain into the canal and place soak-up pads etc, our BW guy went down to Bunbury and placed a bund and soak up on the wier alongside the locks. Later that day the team called out by NWF toured the canal laying soak up pads in the catch points at the front and sterns of moored boats they continued this yesterday and were back again today still laying long floating "snakes" of soak ups when we left.

Before we left a gang of "suits" turned up and walked the Calveley mooring, I and another moorer elicited from them they were BW, NWF, EA and NWF insurance Loss Adjuster. The loss adjuster when asked confirmed they were aware that diesel strips bitumen and gave out his cards so that when he and the parties involved established liability he was happy for us to contact him for details of who to bill if we wanted to make compensation claims.

david

P.S.

Spraying with washing up liquid compounds the pollution and should not be done.

 

David,

Are you wringing out the soak up pads for the Kelvin? Should be ok if you have a water trap.

[David]

David,

Are you wringing out the soak up pads for the Kelvin? Should be ok if you have a water trap.

 

As many of them floated off down the canal anyway I did have to rescue a couple for other use before they even got wet, the Kelvin is remarkably clean, however, just a pass through of oil from the water pump crank bearings which simply drop to the floor after leaving the bearings but as the oiling consists of one small squirt at the start of the day this is caught by a small ex-ice cream pot of the floor, we don't have the original water pump which can/are water drippers but a nice water tight Johnson driven from a pulley on the crank. We do also have very small diesel drops from the stern gland type shaft seal on the govenor again taken care of by a small tray on the floor, a choice between nipping up to tight by dry and wearing the shaft or running as a stern gland should with a v.slight leak to lubricate and minimise wear, any other stray blobs of grease or oil are soaked up by a layer of newspaper on the floor which gets changed ever 2/3 months as it really does not need more frequent changing. Between you and I, I have seen some pretty gruesome sights under some engines including Kelvins.

david

[mayalld]

Hi

Saturday afternoon a major spill of diesel occured at the petrol Station about 1/4 mile Bardridge side of Calveley,we moorers at Calveley called BW when the stink of fuel on the water alerted us all to the spill and the local on call banksman came down to see. Whilst talking to us he had a call from his office to say the EA had called in a major polution spill at the garage. By this time the smell was most nausuating and despite the heat of the day doors and windows had to be closed. We today found out that NW Farmers had reported the spill to the EA who had in turn called BW, incidentally no one from EA turned up until Sunday according to the NW Farmers official we spoke to today (see further down).

The BW local guy went down to the garage to investigate and found that a emergency clean up team had arrived (later discovered they had been called in by North West Farmers) to do what they could to clean up the spill from an unloading tanker into a surface mounted tank, the tanker was from NW farmers just on the other side of the canal. The team had bunded off the land drain into the canal and place soak-up pads etc, our BW guy went down to Bunbury and placed a bund and soak up on the wier alongside the locks. Later that day the team called out by NWF toured the canal laying soak up pads in the catch points at the front and sterns of moored boats they continued this yesterday and were back again today still laying long floating "snakes" of soak ups when we left.

Before we left a gang of "suits" turned up and walked the Calveley mooring, I and another moorer elicited from them they were BW, NWF, EA and NWF insurance Loss Adjuster. The loss adjuster when asked confirmed they were aware that diesel strips bitumen and gave out his cards so that when he and the parties involved established liability he was happy for us to contact him for details of who to bill if we wanted to make compensation claims.

david

P.S.

Spraying with washing up liquid compounds the pollution and should not be done.

 

Interesting that a major diesel spill at Barbridge hasn't provoked a month long closure like it did on the Lower Peak Forest before Easter.

 

BW, naturally, deny that the "close the canal and wait for the diesel to drift onto the booms" approach was adopted as a cost saving measure, and further deny that they did it like that because we are on a quiet canal....

[David]

Interesting that a major diesel spill at Barbridge hasn't provoked a month long closure like it did on the Lower Peak Forest before Easter.

 

BW, naturally, deny that the "close the canal and wait for the diesel to drift onto the booms" approach was adopted as a cost saving measure, and further deny that they did it like that because we are on a quiet canal....

 

Possibly something in the quiet canal bit, with Anglow Welsh and Chas harden just below the spill usually coming up and this year from our observations the canal is busier than ever, loads of boats from further afield heading down toward Chester ever week. The cost I would think will not be born by BW, they have done relativly little apart from the call out and boom at Bunbury weir the major work has been by the Environmental clean up specialists called out by NW Farmers and the Loss Adjuster was I think there on behalf of NW Farmers as it was one of their tankers delivering to a garage they normally supply so methinks BW will claim from them for any cost.

david