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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
March 19, 2024

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Letter: Follow up on the oil spill

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With regard to the oil spill in Mosier, Ore., has anyone thought to hire a professional hydrologist to determine where the unaccounted-for oil that seeped into the rail bed is now? If only 10 percent of the 30,000-gallon spill seeped into the soil, that is still about 3,000 gallons of oil that will cause future problems for the Columbia River.

I am sure that the residents of Mosier and other interested parties will find that this unaccounted-for oil has formed a plume at the level of the aquifer at about the elevation of the river. This will pose an ongoing problem later this year when the fall rains begin, pushing the plume out of the soil and into the main river.

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