{"id":8191,"date":"2014-02-11T17:53:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T22:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=8191"},"modified":"2015-02-03T01:34:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T06:34:39","slug":"live-at-danvilles-epa-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/11\/live-at-danvilles-epa-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: LIVE! at Danville’s EPA meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here you go. I’ve edited the LIVE! feed so that you can view our comments & photos from the start of the meeting until time ran out.<\/p>\n

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5:55 PM: The presentation is all set up.
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6:11 The party’s started. I got Sheila Baynes next to me. Yay!<\/p>\n

6:25 Full house and standing room only.<\/p>\n

6 30 Showtime.
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6:32 Head of DEQ says “we will hold Duke Energy responsible”<\/p>\n

6:35 EPA region directors going over the event and timeline.<\/p>\n

Leak was sealed by concrete slurry pumped into pipe.<\/p>\n

6:42 Introducing all the multiple agency reps.
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6:47 Pipe that broke was a 48 incher.
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EPA guy is doing a great job on explaining how the fix was made.<\/p>\n

6:54 Over 1000 feet of concrete used to seal the broken pipe. Water testing sampling is hard at some places due to no river access.<\/p>\n

“The water Is safe to drink” – Now going over drinking water sample process and how to read results<\/p>\n

7:03 Water quality is now at the same level before the spill – raw and treated water.<\/p>\n

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7:12 The river is safe. The Riverwalk Trail is safe.<\/p>\n

7:15 Q&A starts. Environmental group starts with leading question about Duke Energy’s history of problems. Oh shut up. This is about the cleanup and what happened now.<\/p>\n

7:20 EPA’s first job was to do emergency response. Now comes the modeling of what can happen.
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7:30 Email addresses are available on the newly setup website. That site has all testing data.<\/p>\n

Questions continue. Nothing big or really important.<\/p>\n

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7:40 “Lessons learned” from lack of warnings and advisories on Day 1 & 2.<\/p>\n

7:50 Fish & Wildlife official : “Just because we don’t know of wildlife Impacts doesn\u2019t mean it’s not happening.”<\/p>\n

8:00 Another environmental group speaker asking another agenda based question. Odds are they’d never heard of Danville before now.<\/p>\n

Finally, a good real question. Dried coal ash on the riverbank will be part of the cleanup.<\/p>\n

8:06 EPA is in charge of the incident and is overseeing Duke Energy’s work.<\/p>\n

Complaint because EPA can’t answer all the questions. Really? People should be damned glad they’re doing this tonight so quickly.<\/p>\n

8:14 Oh yeah, we’re in overtime. Communication delays are “being investigated”.<\/p>\n

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Sheila Baynes gets a lot better reception than the woman who tried to hold up a dead turtle.<\/p>\n

8:25 City’s shutting this down at 8:30<\/p>\n

Five more questions and we’re done.<\/p>\n

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\nBarry Dunkley responds to a question.<\/p>\n

8:30 Time’s up. The city’s kicking us out of here. Looks like there was a 2 hour time limit for the city’s TV system.<\/p>\n

Hope you’ve enjoyed it and it really worked well. We’ll do more LIVE! events soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here you go. I’ve edited the LIVE! feed so that you can view our comments & photos from the start of the meeting until time ran out.<\/p>\n

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