This “bubbling crude” could be from an episode of ” The Beverly Hillbillies”, but it isn’t. This is oil from a leaking underground storage tank we found on a Superfund cleanup project.
November 20, 2020
November 2, 2020
Dude, Where’s My Tire?
Dude, where’s my tire? The driver had just left the Superfind site with a load of Subtitle D soil. He should have checked his nuts before he left.
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October 30, 2020
One Cold December Night
We were working on a Superfund site one cold December night. It started to snow and things got slippery. We knocked off early.
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May 29, 2020
Superfund Riverbank Cleanup
Photo: Port of Seattle
We started this superfund riverbank cleanup in 2013, finishing in early 2015. The project involved removing over 40,000 cubic yards of PCB-contaminated soil.
The project was in the inter-tidal zone; the contractor maintained vertical and horizontal separation between the excavation the the tide level.
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April 8, 2020
Undercover Construction Inspector Vehicle
This undercover construction inspector vehicle was my daily driver for several years, a 1988 Volvo 240 with over 300,000 miles on it. I sold it to an musician a few years ago. Angelina Villalobos painted it in South Park, Washington.
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March 4, 2020
A Cold, December Night on the Job
I can’t tell you how cold that December night on the job was. Fortunately, we knocked off early.
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