Oil-Covered Sand Being Dumped In Area

July 8, 2010

Thousands of bags of oily waste are being dumped in Escambia County (Ala.), sometimes being trucked through North Escambia.

The Timberlands Landfill in Escambia County (Ala.) is one of several receiving bags of oil-contaminated sand being cleaned off coastal beaches.

According to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, the Allied Waste Services Timberlands Landfill outside Brewton is one of three in the state  receiving oiled waste from BP. Generally, the oily sand and debris is contained in heavy plastic bags that are disposed of along with regular household waste.

The BP waste is transported to the landfills by Waste Managment, Inc.

Other landfills in Alabama receiving the oiled waste are the Magnolia Landfill in Baldwin County and Chastang near Mount Vernon.

Comments

14 Responses to “Oil-Covered Sand Being Dumped In Area”

  1. David Huie Green on July 10th, 2010 12:19 pm

    REGARDING:
    “Obama should have told BP you stop the leak. Stop the leak Stop the leak.”

    And jumped up and down furiously while doing so?

    Only God can speak and things just happen. The rest have to actually do some work to accomplish anything.

    The work on stopping the blowout is being done. It takes longer than anybody wishes it did, but is all we have without magic.

    David trying to be reasonable

  2. pm on July 9th, 2010 9:34 pm

    if you think oily sand is bad think about the tank trucks and rail car and what they contain i will take the oily sand anyday

  3. Dan on July 9th, 2010 3:07 pm

    All these plastic bags, the oil that makes people sick… Just makes me furious that Obama could not take charge of containing the spill and using hay, etc to stop the oil from coming on the beachs. Obama should have told BP you stop the leak. Stop the leak Stop the leak.

    Called Teamwork!

  4. concerned citizen on July 9th, 2010 2:25 pm

    There is a treatment facility in Wallace that used to be up and running in the 90’s and it was made to burn off contaminated dirt so maybe if BP knew it they could pay to reopen this facility back up,give yhe community more jobs locally and then put the dirt in the landfill to cover up the other garbage being brought in from everywhere.

  5. Robert on July 9th, 2010 7:54 am

    I agree with Amanda!

  6. tigger on July 8th, 2010 5:41 pm

    They can remediate the soil through solar remediation which would take a longer time or intense heat through inceneration. This could possibly provide jobs with the load of sand and soil that wil need to be remediated.

  7. Jim on July 8th, 2010 4:54 pm

    Here we go again. And People wonder why people did not want the Conecuh land fill. More contamination for our children and Grand children to deal with in the future.

  8. Lady in FL on July 8th, 2010 3:59 pm

    I would like to know what they do with it after it comes to the landfill!

  9. Amanda on July 8th, 2010 3:07 pm

    I say we ship the crap to bp over in the uk and let them find a way to deal with it

  10. NEresident on July 8th, 2010 10:43 am

    Yeah we’re a dump site for everything, so bring it on. Let’s keep Pensacola beautiful, because we are not important.

  11. Bob on July 8th, 2010 8:09 am

    The staggering thought is the fact that more and more plastic is being packed in all our landfills. This stuff will not deteriorate for many years to come,some will last forever. A better way of solving this problem would be to set up a heat treating facility and run this oil through it and spread it back where it came from. This sugar white sand belongs on the beach where the good Lord put it in the first place.

  12. Escambia Resident on July 8th, 2010 8:00 am

    So it goes to timberlands. Leeches into the groundwater. Gets into the Conecuh River. Runs into the Escambia River. Settles out into my drinking water.

    I am for one glad to know this information.

  13. whitepunknotondope on July 8th, 2010 7:54 am

    “…sometimes being trucked through North Escambia.”

    What do you WANT them to do, wave a magic wand and have it magically appear at the landfill? Of course it has to get TRUCKED through lots of areas!

    I agree with kjohnson, when I read that I thought it sounded a bit accusatory. Maybe that’s just the way political rhetoric leaves us conditioned.

  14. kjohnson on July 8th, 2010 6:35 am

    what is the problem with it being “trucked through northescambia”? it’s just oil and sand. A little hysteria maybe there in the reporting?

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