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Finally, National Media Attention to the Salt Dome Collapse + Thurs. News
- NPR (with good photo) – Massive Sinkhole In Louisiana Baffles Officials
- Newser (popular with web homepage content) – 12-Acre Sinkhole Plaguing Louisiana
- MSN(!) (also has good photo ) - 9-acre king of all sinkholes threatens to swallow a whole neighborhood
- KLFY video – Assumption Parish Sinkhole Update
- NOLA Defender – Jindal’s Sinkhole Visit Churns Up Oily Memories
- Claims Journal – DNR to Appoint Sinkhole Commission
- Red Stick Now – Gov. Jindal Visits Bayou Corne Sinkhole Meets with Impacted Families
Lake Peigneur
“Sheriff Ackal says Lake Peigneur Could be Worse than Assumption Sinkhole”
USGS has LEFT!
MARCH 20, 2013 BY FLYINGCUTTLEFISH
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huh???
New GOHSEP Situation Summary, p. 21 – - -
“USGS is no longer actively engaged in this process. Responsibility has been transferred to the University of Memphis.”
If They Want a 3-D Seismo of Lake FUBAR Why Don’t They Just Ask Golden Gate Petroleum for Theirs?
Golden Gate Petroleum has a seismo map of the Napoleonville Salt Dome. It’s on this [publicly available] document -
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entire, interesting document with graphics and charts.
Grand Gulf Energy brags “The Napoleonville Salt Dome has the potential to contain 520 billion cubic feet (BCF) of gas and 4.5 million barrels of oil (MMBO) from over 60 prospects and leads which have been identified so far from Grand Gulf’s proprietary 50 square mile 3D seismic survey. “
Golden Gate sees Napoleonville as a money tree! Report
For the record – Experts: cavern near sinkhole is stable
Are these the same ‘experts’ who say “there is no change is size or characteristics of the sinkhole” as it balloons out swallowing trees week after week?
The Advocate - Jindal to ensure sinkhole buyouts fair
[snip] ” . . . . Texas Brine attorney Bradley Myers laid out the process for residents without legal counsel to begin negotiating with the company for buyouts and settlement of all other claims.
He said residents involved in litigation would follow a parallel but probably slower track.
Myers said that after residents fill out required forms, the company hopes have an appraiser make inspections and return an offer to the residents within 30 days of the inspection.”
Helicorders 12, 14 & 15 are all going off!
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A NEW Situation Summary is out (Mar. 19) The thumper truck map operation is over. So it shouldn’t be making zig-zags on the helicorders now.“Vibe Truck operations began 17 MAR and concluded 18 MAR.”
At the end of the Situation Summary on p. 28 it talks about DOTD monitoring area bridges and mentions “CORS system“. That stands for Continuously Operating Reference Station run by NOAA. More on CORS system.
SCARY -
Not Louisiana news – weird geological event in the N.E. near Cape May.MAP
“Just after 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon residents in Atlantic, Cape May, and Cumberland counties say they felt multiple earthquake-like tremors that rattled their homes and offices.Absecon resident, Kay Stadlmeir, said, “I don’t think it would be an earthquake, but what could it be? It’s just really odd.” Somers Point resident, Bob Mower, explained, “There was a rattling of my windows and I felt the house shake just a little bit – it was unusual.” Stadlmeir told NBC40, “It has to be something really big to be witnessed in such a widespread area of South Jersey.” The reports vary from region to region. Atlantic county emergency management officials confirmed with the U.S. Geological Survey that it was not an earthquake. . . “
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http://lasinkhole.wordpress.com/
2013 March 19, Tuesday
Bayou Corne, Louisiana
On Wings Of Care's fifth flyover of the Assumption Parish sinkhole near Bayou Corne, Louisiana left us hardly optimistic that the good people of those communities will be heading home anytime soon. Their community meeting this evening isn't likely to bring good news from Governor Jindal or Texas Brine, unless good news is that they can expect to have their homes and land purchased. The sinkhole has grown, and rainbow sheen covers much of it. Flares are burning, to vent gas from the area. What was at first amusing is now depressing -- the large open storage tank at the northeast corner of the sinkhole is painted with bold blue lettering that says "Responsible Care: Our Commitment to Sustainability."
Bayou Corne, Louisiana
On Wings Of Care's fifth flyover of the Assumption Parish sinkhole near Bayou Corne, Louisiana left us hardly optimistic that the good people of those communities will be heading home anytime soon. Their community meeting this evening isn't likely to bring good news from Governor Jindal or Texas Brine, unless good news is that they can expect to have their homes and land purchased. The sinkhole has grown, and rainbow sheen covers much of it. Flares are burning, to vent gas from the area. What was at first amusing is now depressing -- the large open storage tank at the northeast corner of the sinkhole is painted with bold blue lettering that says "Responsible Care: Our Commitment to Sustainability."
**** Many, many thanks to great photographer and friend Billy Dugger for joining us from Mississippi today for this flight! And to our stalwart friend, volunteer, pilot, and photographer Brayton Matthews from Flightline First at New Orleans' Lakefront Airport for taking all of the videos and more photos. And finally, thanks to Joyce Riley and her Power Hour radio listeners for donating our fuel costs for this flight.
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- ENE -News – “We went into a ‘Code 3’” last week at giant sinkhole — ‘Maximum state of alert’
- and Giant sinkhole now covers 12 acres, continues to expand — Growing parallel to edge of salt dome
DNR has a new Inspection report they say the water level dropped 3inches. hmmmm.
Texas Brine has a fact-sheet (dated Mar. 14) up on their website. It is from before the newest slough-in. They have a new phrase “unanticipated surface subsistence” (!) 
http://lasinkhole.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/another-power-outage/
A FLURRY of NEWS from the PARISH BLOG!
They say Highway 70 is OK (for now!) – - – just ignore all that rad wastedumped down 5 caverns in Napoleonville. Maybe roll the windows up!
• There will be a hurried community meeting -
Where: Assumption Parish Community Center
4910 Highway 308, Napoleonville, LA
When: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 6:00 p.m.
4910 Highway 308, Napoleonville, LA
When: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 6:00 p.m.
State Senate meeting today on Texas Brine’s mess.
The Advocate – Lawmakers meet on sinkhole; edge collapses <article has no mention of radioactive waste dumped all over Napoleonville.
BAYOU CORNE — A four-mile section of La. 70 South in Assumption Parish will be closed periodically from 9 p.m. Sunday to 3 a.m. Monday, parish officials said.
The closure will allow a truck to ride the highway section, vibrate the surface of the road and send seismic waves underground for testing related to the Bayou Corne-area sinkhole, parish officials said Sunday. . . .
. . . . The specialty truck is being used in populated areas to reduce impacts to property, Texas Brine officials have said. The charges will start being fired on Tuesday, officials have said.
http://freedomrox.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/louisiana-sinkhole-state-documentation-reveals-that-radioactive-materials-were-injected-into-five-additional-napoleonville-salt-dome-caverns/
Louisiana Sinkhole: State Documentation Reveals that Radioactive Materials Were INJECTED into Five Additional Napoleonville Salt Dome Caverns
A truly shocking revelation has been uncovered in SONRIS files concerning the fragile and ‘too close to salt edge’, Occidental Geismar #1, as well as four other caverns on the east side of Grand Bayou.
Last week, it was revealed that Oxy #1 was found to be in potential jeopardy and possible collapse since it lies within 1-200 ft. from the Salt Dome’s edge.
Louisiana Sinkhole: Are more Caverns at Risk?
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Although no real shock to those in the know, what else was found regarding Occidental-Geismar #1 Cavern, turned out to be a real electrifying revelation.
Many community meetings have been held in Assumption Parish with the residents affected by the ‘Great Louisiana Sinkhole’ formed by the failure of Oxy-Geismar #3 salt cavern known to be on the edge of the Napoleonville Salt Dome, by Texas Brine and the Owner of the actual cavern itself, Occidental Chemical Corporation. Although asked about the possible NORM contained by other caverns, no real answers were forthcoming. Now we understand why this was never answered.
Buried deep within the bowels of SONRIS at LDNR and in a well file relating to Gulf South #1 failed cavern that terrorized the community of Grand Bayou in 2003, were documents relating to Texas Brine and Occidental’s dealings with James Welsh concerning the disposal of ‘calcium and magnesium brine precipitates’, later changed to ‘brine sludge’, and both terms meaning Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials, (NORM), and the injection of these materials back into the caverns in which they were produced.
In a letter dated July 8, 1991, James Welsh in responding to a May 1, and May 29 requests for NORM to be put back into the following Well(s), Serial #’s 142315, 109979, 110339, 151645, and were not only given permission by then Mining Director Welsh to inject, but additionally informed they would have no problems with continuing Class III brine mining from these same caverns but would also have no problem being permitted for Class II Storage Wells if asked for in the future.
Then in 1994, another set of letters concerning NORM passed between Bill Walters at LDNR and Jim McCartney of Texas Brine requesting Well(s) Serial #’s, 109979 again, 151645 again, and 142316, be injected once more, and was again answered by Mr. Welsh on August 23, 1994, and informed that 
Even more disturbing is that this time Texas Brine proposed a Solka Floc system that would prepare the NORM to be re-injected into the above documented caverns, thereby transforming the NORM into Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials, (TENORM), and the Department of Environmental Quality passed it without question, and with only a sketch to go by; with no plans to follow up after construction, before introducing said materials into the caverns, and all unconcerned that these Wells remained Class III brine mining wells, while at the same time, being used for radioactive sludge waste injection caverns.
Before I go further, I feel it is incumbent upon me to inform you, the reader, that not once, but twice OXY GEISMAR #1 is proposed for these TENORM injections, as evidenced by Serial Number 151645, which turns out to be the very cavern that is now suspected of being mined too close to the edge of the Salt Dome, and could potentially fail. I would also like to point out this was done at a time when it was illegal under any circumstances to place any radioactive materials into salt caverns of any kind.
I submit this fact was known far ahead of time as submitted in earlier articles, but further evidence has come to light supporting such a supposition.
On August 25, 2012 and only three weeks after the OXY GEISMAR #3 cavern had collapsed, Occidental and Texas Brine sent in a team to immediately perform a SONAR scan of Oxy Geismar #1 and of no other caverns as shown in these pictures provided by LDNR.
These pictures and the SONAR of Oxy Geismar #1 screams that Occidental and Texas Brine had reason to be alarmed that this particular cavern might breach out, as opposed to say, Oxy Geismar #2, located directly behind the failed Cavern 3.
This is very disturbing news indeed. Although not a conspiracy minded person…I must admit this smacks of conspiracy and of an on-going coverup.
I do not state this lightly, as Occidental and Texas Brine side-stepped these issues before when questions arose concerning the presence of NORM in Oxy-Geismar #3 by stating that in 1995 they received permission from LDNR, but not from LDEQ. That really seems disingenious in the extreme, considering the Louisiana Dept. of Environmental Quality, Linda Levy, gave full permission in 1994, as did James Welsh, of LDNR Director of Injection and Mining Division, for the TENORM injection of waste materials into 5 other caverns.
If there is even a way for these obviously corrupt corporations and the State Agencies charged with the Safety of the Public Health and Welfare of the People of Louisiana, to weasel their way from under these allegations, then these questions still remain…. If in 1991 there was enough NORM for four wells, and in 1994, enough existed for three more wells, and then with just an average of 20 cu. ft. of NORM that was to be placed in Oxy #3, then we have 160 cu. ft.of radioactive materials floating around in limbo whether just underground in the Solka Floc system and a ‘Tank’, or laying in piles all over the dome, with their is the potential for 1000′s of Feet of Radioactive Materials in unknown locations exposed to the elements, or as stated in the above letters; re-injected into caverns, where they could be pumped out to an end producer as fertilizer such as the Occidental-Geismar Fertilizer Plant in Geismar. Louisiana, or to Dow, which uses the chlorides for many end user products, such as plastics, and a host of other end user products that could be on a Store Shelf near you.
None of us ever to expected our Bagged Fertilizers, nor our Chlorox type cleaners, to actually glow in the dark.
If this does not spark an investigation by the Federal Government, then what on earth ever will? Raw Milk?
Source File: Start at Page 176-188 of the Gulf South #1 Well History File.
IN HOUSE SOURCE: Gulf SouthTexas Brine
