Keeping toxic foam residue out of water will cost multi-millions
Tuesday 15th March 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
November 2002 and Rue de la Grange, near Sous L’Eglise, is a mass of foam after chemical from a capsized airport fire tender entered a stream. The authorities said at the time that the spill had not resulted in any harmful long-term contamination. (Picture by John O’Neill, 30142402)
A MULTI-MILLION pound project to remove a toxic chemical from soil at the airport and stop it entering the water supply has taken a step forward.
Public Services has applied for planning permission for a new groundwater plant that, if approved, will be running before the main work begins on the airport runway project.
The facility, which is included in the expected £80m. bill for the improvements at the airfield, will help prevent a chemical foam previously used in firefighting – PFos – from entering the local water supply.
Guernsey Water is monitoring any traces of the chemical at St Saviour’s Reservoir.
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Cue the anti-NIMBY brigade saying us southerners should just put up with poisoned water!
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@ Big Foot Silva
Just count yourself lucky you don’t live within the nuclear exclusion zone at Fukushima in Japan…
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Hardly that Big Foot , think its more a case of be happy you are not in Haiti where still one year on things are bad or in Japan right now ….
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@Martino:
With great hindsight the Japanese are wondering why no one had the balls to ask why they were building a nuclear plant at sea level at a high risk Tsunami location.
After our taps have to be turned off at a future point you might then have the balls to ask why the airport is placed right above our reservoir at the very top of our water supply. There’s only so much you can engineer away from water catchment.
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Darn it Big Foot Silva – you’ve exposed the townie / northern coalition’s master plan to poison the southern water supply and wipe you lot out.
Ah well….back to the drawing board.
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I fail to see the point you are trying to make blokeinlondon. There is no need to ask why our airport “is placed right above our reservoir” because the hazard to our water supplies is being removed.
In other words all you southern nimby types can relax now. Our local danger is being properly contained and I only wish we could say the same for the much, much, much greater threat of nuclear pollution that still faces the people of Japan and, perhaps, the wider world.
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Ooh I see the “others have it worse brigade” are out in force jumping on every tongue in cheek comment that they read.
Funny how an horrific natural disaster just gives people more reason to trot out that tired old line.
Paul, I’m glad to see your good sense of humour remains, see I’m a double agent that represents southern western interests. I was present at the last coalitions meeting, a double agent of sorts, see if you can spot me at the next one!!
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I’ll keep my eyes peeled BFS
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