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A TIME BOMB IN MY REAR YARD

In the rear of my home is an abandoned sub-station, all the transformers and towers are still intact. I feel this situation is not comfortable, much less an eyesore. These transformers still contain and this property borders an active train track. I am appealing to the neighbors, city and power company to remove this problem. please give me some ammunition to use on them.

Thanks,

J.D. Zaffuto
- Metairie, Louisiana
2002

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You should not have to put up with an eyesore, J.D.! And as a general waste management policy, no manmade materials should be handled by just letting them rust away in place.

I suppose it's remotely possible that these transformers contain PCBs, although I strongly doubt that either the power company or the city would allow transformers which contain PCBs to just rust away.

I don't think it's a good idea to construct imaginings of impending train wrecks and chemical catastrophe; we already have so much chemical paranoia in this country that we voluntarily ceded our position as the major industrial power (a folly which our grandchildren will curse us for). The abandoned substation is an eyesore which should be fixed, but it's not Bhopal.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
2002