{"id":245898,"date":"2004-10-05T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T15:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/10\/freeport-storage-facility-faces-oil-clean-up-of-400-gallons"},"modified":"2004-10-05T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2004-10-05T15:41:03","slug":"freeport-storage-facility-faces-oil-clean-up-of-400-gallons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/10\/freeport-storage-facility-faces-oil-clean-up-of-400-gallons","title":{"rendered":"Freeport Storage Facility Faces Oil Clean-Up Of 400 Gallons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freeport &#8211; The South Riding Point oil storgae facility in East Grand Bahama is faced with the arduous task of cleaning up about 400 gallons of oil which spilled from a damaged tank and poured into the the surrounding area during Hurricane Jeanne.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nPublic analyst Mike Wallace of the Environmental Health Department reported that about 300 to 400 gallons leaked out sometime last week before the storm hit the island on Saturday.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAlthough the oil spill was initially contained withing the plant&#8217;s bund wall, Mr. Wallace said the heavy downpour of rain filled the bund causing the oil and water to overflow into the street and surrounding vegetation outside of the plant.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Wallace, who visited the area on Monday during an assessment trip to East End, said the oil poses no hazard to the area and would be very difficult to ignite.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;They should have started the recovery of the oil but I got reports from them that the vacuum truck used to suck up the oil was damaged,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIn addition to recovering the oil, Mr. Wallace said the plant would have to also carry out some cosmetic cleaning of the surrounding areas.<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: Denise Maycock, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spill was initally contained but due to the heavy downpour of rain from Hurricane Jeanne the oil overflowed into the surrounding vegetation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}