No, 32k is a big release. 24 million is an epic leak. I do petroleum cleanups for leaking tanks. Don’t let the worst case set the standards for risk. It can always be worse, that doesn’t make the very bad stuff less bad.
The grandaddy of them all is probably the Hanford Superfund Site. 1 million gallons of high-level radioactive tank waste leaked from underground single-wall tanks into the soil. By the time cleanup is finished in 2050 the cleanup will have cost more than the Manhattan Project did, in inflation-adjusted terms.
32k gallons is not a lot, could almost be a full load for a transport aircraft. over 5 months the leak rate would be about 9 g/h - so a leaking underground fitting.
Yeah there PFAS levels are insane and directly linked to their fire suppression systems. Of course there are other issues with contamination too, see “camp lejeune”
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"Those are tookie number,s, you gotta pump those numbers up." -Miami International Airport, probably
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/toxic-runways-6364207/
Worked for a defense subcontractor that modeled similar kinds of underground spills. Happened all the time and usually went decades before being noticed. Took the USAF a long time to learn not to wash degreaser off the end of runways. Kelly AFB at one point was facing 50,000 homeowner lawsuits for contaminating a great deal of SAWS’s drinking water.
That is bad but I am going to ahve to ask how much jet fuel do the use per day? I could easily see that number being so low of the leak to not make someone things something is up and the daily shortage is with in a margin of error they would expect.
Depends how many gallons a day they are using.
For example that is 32k gallons is going to be less than 1 days worth of fuel they use. Lets say it was a 100 days. That is going to work out to be under a 1% loss rate so easy enough to fall with in a measuring error on any given day so no one notices for a while.
A good example for myself is that I work right next to a kc135 base. The air tankers hold roughly 30k gallons each. They have 8 of them and use a massive amount of fuel
32,000gal of Jet A / JP8 is a little over 200k lbs… which is less than one full fuel load for many aircraft that pass through Andrews. That’s a rounding error over the course of several months.
It’s no excuse, of course, but it’s perspective for the volumes involved.
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I remember flying over a denuded and sandy area of Joint Base Andrews with a USAF Brigadier General back in 1994. I looked down and asked, "what's that sandy spot, sir?"
The General said, "you'll be seeing that on Dateline someday."
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