Stroud Oil Tanks on French Lick Road, Daviess County, December 22nd, 2001 NOTCOM 65832

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Stroud Oil Tanks on French Lick Road, Daviess
County, December 22nd, 2001 NOT/COM 65832

• By
• L. Peyton Adams

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Clearview Construction Company Inc. Steve Byrne
of 6245 Griffith Station Road Owensboro KY 42301
working on the French Lick crude oil tank battery
site on the farm of Richard Stroud.
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Brush pile being burned with one gallon of diesel
with equipment on hand to control blaze on
parallel laid logs and brush to burn evenly.
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Brush pile being burned with equipment on hand,
no plastic inside, pile started with one gallon
of diesel on the pile and contractor in
attendance.
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Empty crude oil tanks used 23 years ago per the
contractor. View toward French Lick Road curve
and the Ohio River.
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Construction and demolition site on crude oil
tanks that have been empty over 2 decades. No
free liquids.
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The northern most tanks crushed with the Ohio
River visible in the background. No free liquids.
Rusty metal tanks were crushed without bottom
sediment problems as construction demolition
debris. Covered permit by rule, recycling, and
gave a copy of the emergency phone list to help.
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Crushed oil tanks as CD with French Lick road
and Ohio River visible in background. View
looking northeast at northern tanks.
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Southern tank pile by brush pile looking
southwest. No free liquids. Handled as CD.