Putting Seward, IL 38,000 NH3 release into some perspective

Most have seen the amazing CCTV footage from the 2007 ammonia release from the ag business in Seward, IL, but those two videos leave a lot of questions.  This posting is a follow-up video regarding the trucking company’s clean up plan and contains a news video that gives us some perspective of the layout of the area.  In the earlier videos we see the big red barn like building  in the background as the ammonia travels towards the camera; in this latest video we can see the location of the tanks and unloading area, which was a gravel pad with NO secondary containment and within 25′ of a large drainage ditch.  You can see the video in the embedded feed …

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