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Spring thaw stirs up oil spilled in Lac-Mégantic wreck
The source of the Chaudière River is Lac Megantic and meets the St. Lawrence at Levis, across from Quebec City. I’m assuming the places where the residents are smelling and seeing oil are north of St. George and Ste. Marie (these two towns are north of Lac Megantic). If so, the context is correct but it could be stated more clearly.
Canadian rivers must be odd. Usually water in a river flows downstream, meaning that contamination at point A will only affect points below or downstream, not any points above or upstream. That is regardless if the river flows east, west, north or south. The beginning of a river is the most upstream point and then it flows downstream until it either goes into a lake, sea or another river.
Canadian rivers must be odd. Usually water in a river flows downstream, meaning that contamination at point A will only affect points below or downstream, not any points above or upstream. That is regardless if the river flows east, west, north or south. The beginning of a river is the most upstream point and then it flows downstream until it either goes into a lake, sea or another river.
What a Wonderful (like, I wonder what the?..region of the,) World.
Rivers flow upstream from their sources; sailing from Boston to Maine, set your course down East.
Listen to accents, dialects…In Ke (Qu)bec some choppy, graceless French; in Coastal New England, some of the most unique English that side of the Bronx or Brooklyn, or Virginia, or Tennessee or Alabama or Fargo.
Quebec “environmental specialists” apparently didn’t do their job. Will will hear cries of “jail!” for these as we did with MM&A?
Regardless of which way the river flows, the accident will have an impact on the area for years. Terrible wreck, very preventable. Most Railroad rules are written with blood, this will make mote tiles written.
Looking at Mapquest, the article is misstating the direction of the flow of water… It looks like the water is flowing north from Lac-Mégantic toward the St. Lawrence River, making St-Georges and Ste-Marie DOWNSTREAM from Lac-Mégantic.
Oil spilled on the ground can wind up floating on the underground water table, and be slowly released into surface water for years. They may have groundwater purge systems to capture this oil, but trying to capture all the oil unseen underground is not always 100%. Unfortunately oil spills can take some time to clean up.
I worked for the BAR for 45 years and went througt there daily when iorn roads owned it if the BAR was still around this wouldnt have happend.
Could it be that ice dams are backing up the waters “further” (sic) up the Chaudiere?
Chris Wright is 100% Correct…
Exon Valdez effects linger 25 years after the incident…
Shouldn’t the towns DOWN riverfrom the wreck site be more concerned than those upriver? Or is this oil somehow moving upstream along with the salmon?
North of Lac Megantic would be DOWNstream, as others have pointed out. This is a beautiful area, and I visited there twice in the last 17 years, most recently in 2008, when I took photos and video of train movements in lightly falling snow at the very intersection where this awful tragedy occurred. I never could have imagined . . .