No 7 – Friday Night Special – How Close is Too Close?

“If you can smell the chemical, the level is too high to be safe.”ⁱ

Last week we shared with you the facts about what chemicals gushed into the pristine air of Mayflower, Arkansas on March 29, 2013. This was one of the things you were not supposed to find out.

Remember what we told you about Benzene, which is highly carcinogenic, Toluene, a neurotoxin, and Hydrogen Sulfide, which is a potent poison, being the chemicals of choice used to force the Tar Sands through those pipes?

Now you know exposure to these for any length of time causes the victim to become sensitized to any and all future exposure. Smelling it AT ALL is too close.

And knowing full well what kind of chemicals were in those pipes Rex Tillerson and men like the Kochs withhold this information because What We Don't Know Can't Hurt Them! It only hurts us. 

Here is the Time Line for those first hours after the spill began.  

 

 And here are the kind of maps which the ALOHA system could have delivered to residents and HazMat units within minutes of the time the spill began.  

Original Spill

 

HYDROGEN SULFIDE THREAT ZONES GOOGLE EARTH

 

H2S ALOHA MODEL MARPLOT

 

TOLUENE THREAT ZONES GOOGLE EARTH

TOLUENE THREAT ZONES MARPLOT

  

BENZENE THREAT ZONES GOOGLE EARTH

 

BENZENE THREATS MARPLOT

H2S Threat Zones 2 East Ditch

 

H2S Closeup East Ditch2

 

Toluene 2 East Ditch

  

Benzene 2 East Ditch

 

BENZENE 2 EAST DITCH

 

ALOHA MAYFLOWER CALCs

Est. size of spill at 5,000 barrels = 210,000 gallons of Dilbit

Measured 4.1 % H2S 

Measured 1.84 % of Dilbit is BTEX (April 14, 2013)

Est. 35% of Dilbit is Condensate

Measure 4.85% of 35% Condensate is BTEX ( Nov1. 1, 2013)

1% of Cond is Benzene 

Est. 35% of Dilbit is Condensate

Measure 4.85% of 35% Condensate is BTEX (Nov1. 1, 2013)

2% of Cond is Toluene

1% of Cond is Benzene

And now we have the answer to the question of why folks like the Kochs and Tex Tillerson don't want us to know what those pipes contain.  

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Wisconsin Dept. of Health Services 2013 Benzene http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/eh/chemfs/fs/benzene.htm