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...Extending the Framingham line to Worcester through Ashland, Westboro, Grafton and Millbury...
...loading operation should have been routine: an enormous storage tank at Ashland Oil's Floreffe, Pa., facility was slowly filling with No. 2 diesel fuel, and everything seemed to be going according to plan. True, the 40-year- old container was being filled for the first time since having been cut up, moved from Cleveland and reconstructed on the site near the Monongahela River. True, the company did not have the required permit from Allegheny County. And true, Ashland Oil had forgone the standard safety practice of testing the tank with a full load of water. But the vessel...
...slowed the oil's progress. Wheeling, W. Va., was bracing for the onslaught, and contamination was feared along the Ohio all the way to the Mississippi. The Pennsylvania Fish Commission reported numerous dead fish; ducks and geese, caught in the oil, had to be rescued and washed. Said Ashland Oil Chairman John Hall, who quickly declared his company would comply with federal law by footing the entire cleanup bill: "I expect it will be a multimillion-dollar problem...
Attention is now focusing on what caused the spill. There has been speculation that the steel of the Ashland tank may have become brittle in the bitter cold. Other possible causes: flaws in the tank's foundation, which had to support 30 million lbs., or in an underground water pipe. Ashland has also been criticized for reusing the steel. Hall admits that using old metal was one of "a few areas of questionable judgment" at issue. While not admitting liability, Hall said, "I wish our people had pursued the application more diligently...
...water systems come back on-line, lawsuits are beginning to fly. Six were filed last week charging Ashland with negligence that caused major economic losses and suffering to local industry and citizens. Considering the number of people and companies affected, Ashland and riverside communities are sure to % be sorting out the blame for the Floreffe spill long after the effects of the oil have disappeared...