[Milsurplus] Transformers...

[Peter Gottlieb]

Tell me about it.  Near where I live is the old Anaconda Copper plant 
(Hastings-on-Hudson, NY) where they made cable.  Some of their high voltage 
cable used PCB oil as an insulator so there is a bit of contamination everywhere 
but after the plant shut down the kids from Yonkers would come up and strip 
everything they could find and once the bus bars and all cable and all 
switchboard gear was taken they went for the huge transformers.  How they 
knocked them over is beyond me because the place was inaccessible to motor 
vehicles but knock them over they did and the scene there was much like the 
picture below but multiply that by dozens of transformers (some 15 feet 
horizontal and 20 feet high with radiators and fans) and you can understand why 
it is now a superfund site.  When they last tested the soil the reported PCB 
levels were in excess of 10,000 PPM and they are still trying to figure out how 
to do something that will not further contaminate the Hudson right next to it or 
the villages where the soil would have to be transported through.

Peter


Patrick Jankowiak wrote:
> when vagrants strip large transformers..
> 
> http://www.stockpix.com/stock/environmentalissues/pollution/water/9908.htm
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