Fine for dumping RV tanks in a storm drain???
Tour bus dumps on the street (This is NOT political, please keep it that way. The rules of this forum clearly state: "Political and religious posts, pictures, links, signatures etc. are not allowe...
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GordonThree wrote:
Only reason the hazmat crew was called out was because of the bus's paint job... a chance for some folks to get their 15 minutes in the national spotlight.
Just a few weeks ago a local hardware store deliver truck dumped gallons and gallons of oil paint on the road because they took a corner too fast and lost control of their load. What was the governments response? They sent a firetruck out to pressure wash the road; they blasted all that toxic paint right into a storm drain.
No fines, no jail time, no investigation into the hardware store. The driver wasn't even ticketed. No television news crews showed up. The local paper did shoot a 30 second video spot on it.
I can ASSURE you that the reason that HAZMAT was called out had nothing to do with who was on the side of the bus. Nobody on scene knew for almost 30 minutes about the cell pictures and what the bus had on the side.
FACTS:
The bus was gone before the first Lawrenceville PD arrived. When he got their, there was dried toilet paper and obvious fecal matter on the asphalt and sidewalk.
The storm drain feeds a stream that flows through a neighborhood less than 200 yards of the street.
The "waste" was contained by booms and removed. I can assure you the costs of materials alone is more than $5000. Fortunately, state law allows for governments to charge private entities for the cost of specialty responses.
