http://theadvocate.com/news/ascension/5976085-123/all-5-holes-in-assumption
( latest flyover at the link at the bottom of the article ... )
( latest flyover at the link at the bottom of the article ... )
All 5 holes in Assumption sinkhole’s containment berm now plugged
Texas Brine Co. contractors plugged the final two breaches in a containment berm around the Assumption Parish sinkhole by early Tuesday after heavy rain and high water punched through the incomplete earthen barrier late last week, authorities said.
With the holes plugged, Sonny Cranch, spokesman for Texas Brine, said workers resumed on Tuesday the previously planned work of building up the earthen levee surrounding the 71-acre area containing the sinkhole near the Bayou Corne community.
“Berm breaches are all repaired,” he said in an email Tuesday.
John Boudreaux, director of the parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said workers finished filling the last, largest breach about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. It was about 75 feet across and 4 to 5 feet deep, he said.
Texas Brine officials said in an email response to questions that work on the berm is expected to last another 45 to 60 days, barring any further delays from weather or underground tremors.
The failures on the western and southwestern sides of the levee led to initial fears that crude oil in the 15.1-acre sinkhole’s waters might escape into surrounding freshwater swamp.
But parish and company officials have said it does not appear that happened and protective boom was deployed to prevent it.
The Louisiana Office of Conservation ordered the berm installed to prevent contamination from the sinkhole. The swampland hole emerged last August after a Texas Brine salt dome cavern failed deep underground. Residents of the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou communities remain under evacuation orders issued for their own safety.
Texas Brine contractors gained initial containment around the sinkhole Feb. 22 with a first layer of sand, but the project has hit periodic delays due to weather and tremors, burps of gas and oil, and edge collapses around the sinkhole.
Overnight Thursday, floodwater began pouring through five openings eroded over a low section of the berm that had an initial sand base but lacked the geotextile fabric and clay cap designed to protect the structure from high water.
Water inside the original 71-acre berm encircling the sinkhole rose an estimated 3 feet from the earthen wall failures.
Texas Brine and parish officials said there aren’t plans
to drain the floodwater, but final plans call for two drainage structures, including a water control weir now being manufactured.
to drain the floodwater, but final plans call for two drainage structures, including a water control weir now being manufactured.
John Boudreaux, director of the parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said it is possible water inside the berm will drain into the sinkhole because that had happened previously.
View State Police video of the Assumption Parish sinkhole recorded May 14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMgKfbXd9JM
Bouncy House Beneath Lake FUBAR
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Texas Brine, that’s some CODE 3 ya got workin’! Everybody driving trucks and digging around!
You can relax. Sonny Cranch says everything is fine.
UPDATE -
Some of the charts are wacky because Geo Seismic Array work is getting done (hole drilling).
Bouncy House Beneath Lake FUBAR
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Texas Brine, that’s some CODE 3 ya got workin’! Everybody driving trucks and digging around!
You can relax. Sonny Cranch says everything is fine.
UPDATE -
Some of the charts are wacky because Geo Seismic Array work is getting done (hole drilling).
and....
Louisiana Sinkhole: Questions And Answers, And?
(Special Thanks again to Bonny Schumacher and the Power Hour, Bonny's website is at: http://onwingsofcare.org/ )
I would like to apologize for taking so long to publish any updates or other news regarding the 'Great Louisiana Sinkhole'. I have been very busy attempting to help several residents of Bayou Corne and the surrounding areas with various problems, and one of which is another complete article, but I have not received permission to print as of yet.
Everything you want to know about Oxy 2 and MORE.... ON THE RECORD!
Sonny Cranch: " Oxy Geismar #2 is STILL being mined (!!)."
Breach on purpose to help Texas Brine get on with mining?
[snip] . . . . " That two days of flooding rains overwhelmed the old wastern berm is of no surprise to anyone, and fortuitous it seems for Texas Brine for obvious reasons. This was confirmed, at least to my satisfaction, by Texas Brine’s response by slave driving their workers in the middle of a lightning rich thunderstorm to repair the smaller breaches of the western berms, but halted work to repair the largest breach of 75 ft. and are allowing it to “equalize/stabilize” the bayou and sinkhole waters. This speaks volumes….of “Production Waters”, that is. "
Sunday News – Life Jackets On!
Latest Flood Warning – Baton Rouge area
The Advocate – Sinkhole berm repairs planned
“Texas Brine contractors patched up the three smaller breaches with clay Friday, but they were unable to reach the larger two because crews did not want to further damage what already had been built, Cranch said.”
“High water driven by heavy rains poured inside a containment levee around the Assumption Parish sinkhole overnight Thursday and much of Friday, forcing workers to try to cut off the flow and to contain the hole’s brew of crude oil and brine.”
” . . . . Oil-retardant boom had been deployed in an attempt to block any flow of the sinkhole’s oily contents into the freshwater swamps surrounding the sinkhole between the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou communities, officials said.”
Sunday Weather: Mild winds, scattered showers with a chance of . . . CATASTROPHIC FLOODING & rad waste release
The rivers above and near Lake FUBAR will crest Sundayaccording to forecasts.
The rapid snow melt in the Dakotas that has been heading down the Missouri River joining up at the Mississippi River in Southern Illinois. If they open the Moganza Spillway it would further flood Bayou Corne which will already be full of local runoff and heavy rain amounts.
The source of the rapidly bubbling methane inside and outside the broken, useless berm remains unidentified.
There is no word about H2S except to deny it is accumulating under abandoned (not bought out) homes.
Decades of radiocative waste (with the ingenue’s cute name of ‘NORM’) is unaccounted for, not inventoried, scattered across sites, falsely recorded in state records and may be let loose in the combination catastrophe, salt dome cave in and flood water entry into salt dome. And flood.
The aquifer already has unaddressed problems of chemical wastes, methane and oil industry waste seeping into it from the wrecked salt dome at Napoleonville. Readers are reminded it is bigger than the Empire State Building and the caverns near it are huge also. Their integrity is unknown. Seismic activity, rain and flood and havoc from the the collapse all are stressing other caverns.
Sunday should be very interesting at Bayou Corne.
High Water Expected Sunday – Where’s the Rad Waste?
Is it in the surging waters of Lake FUBAR??
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ATTENTION, TEXAS BRINE! Page 80:
– page 83 is even better!
Page 85:
11:35 a.m. Overnight Breaches in Berm
Texas Brine’s western berm encountered five breaches overnight. Two breaches have been repaired, one breach is small and has not been repaired yet and two larger breaches continue to fill the sinkhole and containment area. Texas Brine has indicated that repairs will occur once water levels have stabilized.
BERMS BREACHED!
The Advocate -Water still pouring through three breaches of Assumption sinkhole berm
". . . the water level inside the containment berm — a 71-acre area that includes the sinkhole — has risen 2.5 feet since Thursday as high water outside the berm has poured inside." According to our ROULETTE GAME winners look like 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 20, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31 and33. The parish put up videos - [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=427IP5qKfz4&w=460&h=259] LINK - http://youtu.be/427IP5qKfz4 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jztY9eqBI&w=460&h=259] LINK - http://youtu.be/30jztY9eqBI WAFB - Water poured into giant Louisiana sinkhole after 4 breeches in containment berm
Title: 11:35 a.m. Overnight Breaches in Berm
Source: Assumption Parish Police Jury
Date: May 10, 2013 at 12:35p ET
Source: Assumption Parish Police Jury
Date: May 10, 2013 at 12:35p ET
Texas Brine’s western berm encountered five breaches overnight. Two breaches have been repaired, one breach is small and has not been repaired yet and two larger breaches continue to fill the sinkhole and containment area. Texas Brine has indicated that repairs will occur once water levels have stabilized.
