<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Thank you Darryl! I learned a lot and really admire your ability to explain the concerns about the whole situation so clearly. <div>Can we share your letter with others? </div><div>Cindy <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 25, 2020, at 6:48 PM, Dawn Weidner via Green <green@fuusm.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Excellent letter Darryl! Thank you for writing it!<div dir="auto">Dawn</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 4:01 PM Darryl Ting via Green <<a href="mailto:green@fuusm.org">green@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">Copy of my letter to USACE.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">Darryl</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Darryl Ting</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:darrting1@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">darrting1@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 3:48 PM<br>Subject: Re LRH-2020-293-OHR<br>To: <<a href="mailto:kayla.n.adkins@usace.army.mil" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kayla.n.adkins@usace.army.mil</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">My name is Darryl Ting, and I live in Marietta, Ohio. I am writing regarding Public Notice:
LRH-2020-293-OHR. I have 5 significant
objections to the granting of this permit.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>First</b>, the Public Notice did not appear in the local
Marietta, Ohio newspaper. For an issue
of this importance, no notification was made to the citizens most affected by
the proposed facilities. I found out
about it only after a watchdog group brought it to my attention. But most of the people of Marietta are still
unaware of this Public Notice and the approaching closing of the public comment
period.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Second</b>, the description of the material to be
off-loaded is false. It says “traditional
well waste”, but let’s not kid ourselves, it is fracking waste. Fracking is where the oil and gas boom is, fracking
waste disposal is a huge problem, and that is where the money is to be made. The permit application says “traditional well
waste” to make it sound less hazardous, but this barge unloading facility is
really about fracking waste. Barges are
the cheapest, high volume, long distance transportation mode. And it is obvious that the high volumes will
be fracking waste.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The difference is significant. Fracking waste contains as many as 157 chemicals
known to be toxic, such as benzene, arsenic, lead, cadmium, chlorine, mercury, and
formaldehyde, in addition to radioactive materials and high salt brine. By a legal loophole, fracking waste is not legally
hazardous. But by every health and
pollution standard it clearly is.
Consider this common sense test.
Spray it on a football or soccer field.
Then ask yourself, would it be dangerous for your kids’ health to play there?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Third</b>, from the information given, there is no
evidence that a process safety review has been made. Such reviews are necessary for all facilities
handling hazardous materials to assure that their design and operation will be
safe. They are especially critical where
existing facilities are to be re-purposed.
I am a retired chemical engineer, and some specific questions I have
that such a review should address are …</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What is the match between barge
capacity to be unloaded and the receiving shore tank capacity? The barge size shown on the drawing implies a
barge capacity of 30,000 barrels or 1.26 million gallons. Shore tank working capacity would typically
be more than that, so a whole barge could be unloaded even if the shore tank
were not empty. If the shore tank capacity
is less than that, there is greater risk of overflowing the shore tank.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What is the control and prevention instrumentation? Instrumentation is often used for control of
process operations. But what robustness
has been designed in to prevent system failure if there is individual component
failure? If the shore tank capacity is
less than barge capacity, that means the control systems will be challenged on
a regular basis to prevent overflows … and must correspondingly be more robust.<span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What is the shore storage tank
containment capacity in the event of tank overflow or rupture? Besides instrument failure, there is also
risk of operator error and material failure (especially with used and potentially
corroded tanks). Containment capacity is
the ultimate backstop to widespread contamination. In particular, the natural drainage pattern
for the area of this tankage is toward the Ohio River. So adequate containment capacity is
necessary.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Truck loading operations will be
significant. A barge load will require
about 250 standard 5000 gallon tanker trucks.
So again questions about the control and prevention instrumentation and
design robustness. And with such high
usage, the probability of spills increases to the point where design for spill
containment and recovery/disposal becomes necessary.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Fourth</b>, the truck traffic associated with this
facility’s operation will be quite high ...
250 tanker loads going out and 250 empties coming in per barge. The safety impact of that additional traffic (there
is already Shelly & Sands truck traffic) at the entry/exit to OH route 7 is
something I cannot assess. But I object
to the granting of a permit until the appropriate body can make such an
assessment. And beyond the impact on OH
route 7 traffic, there is the considerable additional truck traffic through
Marietta city itself. Both the safety
impact and the nuisance impact of an additional 500 trucks per barge through
the city needs to be assessed before a permit is granted.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Fifth</b>, the impact of this facility will reach far
beyond Marietta. This facility is an enabler
of much larger health and environmental impacts. Those tanker trucks are headed for waste
injection wells … more fault destabilization, earthquakes and earthquake
damage, contaminated water aquifers, and health hazards. I object to these facilities because they are
a part of a system of transportation and disposal of hazardous fracking waste
that will impact the health and well-being of my neighbors in Ohio and West
Virginia. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Those are my objections to granting this permit. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I am also very concerned that, because of the way the Public
Notice was made, my fellow Mariettans are not aware of this proposed facility
and thus have no opportunity to comment.
Fracking waste disposal is a big and contentious issue. This facility’s permit application should be
given the light and attention it deserves, not processed in the under-the-radar
way it has been so far. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">So I have the following recommendation … re-issue the Public
Notice in the Marietta Times newspaper (that’s the one the people in Marietta
read) and extend the public comment period for this permit application. Better yet, hold a public meeting in Marietta
to get peoples comments and extend the comment period until such a meeting can
be held (current covid-19 restrictions).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you for listening,</p>
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