- Title: VM-278
- Summary: OIL SPILL REPORT: 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
- Description:00:26:45 - 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. 00:27:10 - VARIOUS SHOTS CAMBRIDGE PUMPING STATION, SIT OF SPILL), WHERE 1/2 MILLION GALLONS OIL WAS SPILED IN 1ST 30 MINUTES.. 00:27:27 - PAN FROM STATION TO NEARBY FARM FIELD WHICH WAS GUTTED THE FARM, THEN FLOWED INTO DRAINAGE DITCH AND FLOWED DOWNSTREAM. 00:28:33 - VARIOUS SHOTS STANDING VEGETATION IN MARSH, WHICH ACTED AS TEMPORARY BARRIER, KEEPING OIL FROM FLOWING RAPIDLY DOWN STREAM TO LAKE RIPLEY. 00:28:58 - MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS TEMPORARY DAM DESIGNED TO PREVENT ANY OIL TO REACH LAKE RIPLEY. LATER TO BE REPLACED BY PERMANENT CONTROL DEVICE. 00:29:17 - MAN STICKS HAND IN DRAINAGE DITCH COMES UP WITH HANDFUL OF GOOEY OIL SUBSTANCE. 00:30:06 - MS BARRIER PLACED ON DITCH TO PREVENT OIL FROM FLOWING DOWN STREAM. 00:30:18 - BACK AT THE PUMPING STATION BULLDOZER CLEARS THE OIL OFF THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND AND DIRECTED OIL TOWARDS LOWER GROUND INTO POOLS. 00:30:43 - 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. 00:31:15 - BULLDOZER TEARS DOWN CORN STALKS IN CORN FIELD, EXPOSING THE OILY GROUND WHICH WOULD BE RAPIDLY DEGRADED BY BACTERIAL ACTION. 00:31:36 - 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. 00:32:27 - SKIMMER IS PLACED IN WATER BY WORKERS. VOICE OVER EXPLAINS ITS OPERATION. 00:33:46 - PIPELINE CREW SCRUBS THE BANK OF THE DITCH IN FINAL CLEANUP. MORE THAN 90 % OF THE OIL WAS RECOVERED. 00:34:24 - SMALL AMOUNT OF OIL REMAINING IN THE MARSH IS BURNED OFF UNDER SUPERVISION OF LOCAL FIRE DEPT.. 00:35:53 - 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. 00:36:40 - SMALL SAILBOAT ON LAKE RIPLEY, WHERE THE OIL NEVER REACHED.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1974
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1970s
- File Name: VM-278