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In reply to the discussion: Look at West, Texas on Google Maps [View all]kentauros
(29,414 posts)21. From what I've read, the company had been in business for 55 years.
That puts their their start at around 1958. I have to wonder what the federal regulations were at the time for this kind of thing. Because that's also about eleven years after the bigger disaster of Texas City, also from the explosion of fertilizer.
Freight train derailments worry me as well, and I live in a big city (Houston.) In fact, I live next to a power right-of-way that's next to a double pair of tracks. I've seen some nasty stuff being hauled to and from the Ship Channel and the petro-chemical plants out there. And the richest part of town here (River Oaks) has that same pair of tracks curving around behind it. I suspect none of them know what's traveling on those tracks so near to them...
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I'm glad you got the order of things right. The plant and storage tanks were there before...
slackmaster
Apr 2013
#2
It is too bad that local planning/zoning officials cannot be sued over allowing the building of
pampango
Apr 2013
#3
People buy the homes and rent the apartments that are built in proximity to these sites.
bike man
Apr 2013
#13
chlorine leak from a train wreck in rural part of san antonio killed a couple people in 2004
sammytko
Apr 2013
#31
From what I heard, the plant had been there since the 50's. It's quite likely that...
Poll_Blind
Apr 2013
#11
A gasoline pipeline exploded at the end of my street in L.A. in 1976; 4 dead, 16 injured
pinboy3niner
Apr 2013
#33