Fertilizer plant explodes

[sgrizzle]

I'll go ahead and put in a shameless plug for Land Legacy (http://www.landlegacy.com/) who uses preservation easements to get property owners tax write-offs and provide greenspace barriers in some areas. They are doing a lot of it around military bases now for similar reasons.

[patric]

I'll go ahead and put in a shameless plug for Land Legacy (http://www.landlegacy.com/) who uses preservation easements to get property owners tax write-offs and provide greenspace barriers in some areas. They are doing a lot of it around military bases now for similar reasons.

Would this be a realistic avenue for a piece of property in an old, established neighborhood?
Im thinking of the former Barnard school in midtown, that TPS is wanting to unload (they're having a fire sale).

[Conan71]

Would this be a realistic avenue for a piece of property in an old, established neighborhood?
Im thinking of the former Barnard school in midtown, that TPS is wanting to unload (they're having a fire sale).

I'm really surprised Bumgarner didn't jump all over this and make it look like a Tuscan prison.

[Callahan]

This blast reminded me of a blast in Hendersen, Nevada- It happened 10 years ago or more, where a rocket fuel plant blew up, the plant was located far away from population centers, but it still rattled the area. I think the cause of the blast was leaking barrels that were in storage, they mixed with other other chemicals or got wet and they blew up- when those barrels blew they set off the other barrels in storage at the plant and then the whole thing went up into orbit. youtube has a video of it.

Do a little research, it was 1988, and it was a cascade event that caused the biggest explosion, and it wasn't just the solid rocket fuel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7pRtgisV9s

Shortly before noon on May 4, 1988, a series of explosions rattled the plant and the surrounding area. The blasts killed two employees and injured more than 300 others.

Company officials estimated about 4,500 tons of ammonium perchlorate were present at the plant at the time of the explosions. Nearly all of it was destroyed by the explosions and fires. A nearby natural gas pipeline was ruptured by the detonations resulting in large flames that were visible miles away.

http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/depts/fire/Pages/PepconExplosion.aspx


PEPCON had 4,500 tons of ammonium perchlorate, which is 9,000,000 pounds, which is completely different from ammonium nitrate.

[Breadburner]

Texas does not handle fertilizer very well.....