1974POLLUTION
PROMPT ACTION & GOOD EMERGENCY TECHNIQUES CONTAIN SPILL OF 250,000 GALLONS OF CRUDE OIL AT PUMPING STATION ONE MILE FROM LAKE RIPLEY. CLEANING UP OIL SPILL, POLLUTION
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VARIOUS SHOTS PAN BEAUTIFUL LAKE RIPLEY, MADISON, WISCONSIN, ITS CLEAR WATERS BEING ENJOYED BY BOATERS, SKIERS AND FISHERMEN, UNTIL OIL SPILL AT NEARBY PUMPING STATION IN MARCH, 1973.
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| 00:27:10 29.9 |
VARIOUS SHOTS CAMBRIDGE PUMPING STATION, SIT OF SPILL), WHERE 1/2 MILLION GALLONS OIL WAS SPILED IN 1ST 30 MINUTES..
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| 00:27:27 46.9 |
PAN FROM STATION TO NEARBY FARM FIELD WHICH WAS GUTTED THE FARM, THEN FLOWED INTO DRAINAGE DITCH AND FLOWED DOWNSTREAM.
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| 00:28:33 112.9 |
VARIOUS SHOTS STANDING VEGETATION IN MARSH, WHICH ACTED AS TEMPORARY BARRIER, KEEPING OIL FROM FLOWING RAPIDLY DOWN STREAM TO LAKE RIPLEY.
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| 00:28:58 137.9 |
MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS TEMPORARY DAM DESIGNED TO PREVENT ANY OIL TO REACH LAKE RIPLEY. LATER TO BE REPLACED BY PERMANENT CONTROL DEVICE.
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| 00:29:17 156.9 |
MAN STICKS HAND IN DRAINAGE DITCH COMES UP WITH HANDFUL OF GOOEY OIL SUBSTANCE.
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| 00:30:06 205.9 |
MS BARRIER PLACED ON DITCH TO PREVENT OIL FROM FLOWING DOWN STREAM.
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| 00:30:18 217.9 |
BACK AT THE PUMPING STATION BULLDOZER CLEARS THE OIL OFF THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND AND DIRECTED OIL TOWARDS LOWER GROUND INTO POOLS.
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| 00:30:43 242.9 |
MONTAGE WORKERS COLLECTS OIL FROM POOL. PAN TO LARGE PUMP ON WHEELS, PUMPING OIL INTO HUGE TANKER TRUCK. PUMPING WAS LIMITED TO DAYLIGHT HOURS BECAUSE THE OIL THICKENED AT NIGHT.
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| 00:31:15 274.9 |
BULLDOZER TEARS DOWN CORN STALKS IN CORN FIELD, EXPOSING THE OILY GROUND WHICH WOULD BE RAPIDLY DEGRADED BY BACTERIAL ACTION.
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| 00:31:36 295.9 |
MONTAGE CLEAN-UP OPERATION. LS VEGITATION AND THE MORE SATURATED EARTH BEING LOADED INTO DUMP TRUCKS BY DERRICK. MORE OF BULLDOZERS AND DERRICKS AT WORK IN CLEAN UP.
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| 00:32:27 346.9 |
SKIMMER IS PLACED IN WATER BY WORKERS. VOICE OVER EXPLAINS ITS OPERATION.
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| 00:33:46 425.9 |
PIPELINE CREW SCRUBS THE BANK OF THE DITCH IN FINAL CLEANUP. MORE THAN 90 % OF THE OIL WAS RECOVERED.
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| 00:34:24 463.9 |
SMALL AMOUNT OF OIL REMAINING IN THE MARSH IS BURNED OFF UNDER SUPERVISION OF LOCAL FIRE DEPT..
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| 00:35:53 552.9 |
PAN AREA AFTER CLEAN UP, LOOKS LIKE NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. CU FISH ARRIVED IN POND ON SCHEDULED AND CONTINUED UP STREAM IN CLEAR, CLEAN WATER.
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| 00:36:40 599.9 |
SMALL SAILBOAT ON LAKE RIPLEY, WHERE THE OIL NEVER REACHED.
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