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Combined Danger For Schell Slough, Sonoma Creek, San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Preserve, San Francisco Bay
Earthquakes are known to cause liquefaction in marshland soils – particularly in saturated soils that are already weakened by surrounding flooding. Liquefaction causes settlement, and settlement can cause track collapse. Track collapse can overturn one or more tankers leading to rupture and spills. A single spark may cause a fire or, at worst, a violent explosion. LPG being heavier than air, it moves along the ground, and if ignited, causes a huge explosion, damaging all around for a great distance.
The threat goes further. Using the existing nearby channels, the toxic spill from the tank rupture would surely find its way to the nearby marshlands and channels. From there it is only a short float to the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Preserve, and to the Sonoma Land Trust’s Baylands Wildlife Area, both places where tens of millions of public dollars have been spent for land acquisition and habitat enhancement in recent years.
To make things worse, the local fire departments would use foams and chemicals to fight the blaze in places where water cannot extinguish an LPG fire. The chemical compounds from the foams will damage the nearby dairy’s pasture land and adjacent wildlife habitat, and spread in runoff to contaminate local groundwater and marshlands all the way to the Bay.
A combination that is truly a disaster waiting to happen!
Write your Supervisor, Join Mobilize Sonoma, Let Your Views Be Known!
Here’s What You Can Do To Protect The Wildlife Preserve And Region! Write your County Supervisor at www.sonomacounty.ca.gov
Board of Supervisors:
575 Administration Drive, Room 100 A, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
District 1 – Susan Gorin - Susan.Gorin@sonoma-county.org District 2 – David Rabbitt - David.Rabbitt@sonoma-county.org District 3 – Shirley Zane - Shirlee.Zane@sonoma-county.org District 4 – James Gore - district4@sonoma-county.org
District 5 - Lynda Hopkins -Lynda.Hopkins@sonoma-county.org
Ask the Supervisor(s) to protect our wildlife sanctuary by removing the Northwestern Pacific Rail Tankers from Schellville.
Visit www.mobilizesonoma.org. Join Mobilize Sonoma.
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