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The latest round of fatal flooding in Texas killed 16 people, inundated hundreds of homes and forced the evacuation of a prison. It follows earlier rounds of severe Texas flooding in March, in spring and fall of 2015 and on the Pecos River in West Texas in 2014.
Particularly hard hit between May 18 and June 1 with spills reported by the Railroad Commission were Lee County, just east of Austin, and its neighbor to the south, Fayette County. Together, they were the scene of at least nine incidents.
In one Lee County spill, 100 barrels of oil was released into Yegua Creek, the Railroad Commission reported.
In a Stephens County spill, 50 barrels of oil and 250 barrels of fracking fluid were released into Gonsolus Creek. Booms and vacuum trucks were used to clean up, the commission reported.
Some public health experts worry that fracking fluid, which is used to fracture underground rock to extract natural gas, might be more toxic than oil.
Photo Courtesy of El Paso Times of El Paso, TX. Article by Marty Schladen, read more here:
http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2016/06/05/vast-floods-texas-grapples-more-spills/85450632/
#Fracking #Texas #WesternRefinery #USA #America #UnitedStatesofAmerica #Oil 🌎🌏🌍 (at El Paso Times)
