Confederate weapons cache buried under 40,000 tons of black tar?

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Huge cache of confederate weapons seized by Gen. Sherman may have been found in S.C. river - The Washington Post

 

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[jeff of pa]

Cool; ! But if the Tar spill is only a few years old.
They can probably just remove that like a Lid,
Then dig under it

 

[ARC]

They will debate what to do for at least 6 months...
Every tom dick and hairy will voice concerns... methods and madness...
It then becomes slow circus... driven by a one foot by one foot section of tar at a time...
And will take years before we see a thing.
And we will see 10-20 things of the 2,000... heh

 

[jeff of pa]

They will debate what to do for at least 6 months...
Every tom dick and hairy will voice concerns... methods and madness...
It then becomes slow circus... driven by a one foot by one foot section of tar at a time...
And will take years before we see a thing.
And we will see 10-20 things of the 2,000... heh

then add Army Corp and the EPA

there is a lake near me that they wanted to dredge.
Till army Corp was done with there years of "studies"
and agreed to the permits, Everyone else lost interest,
and couldn't raise the additional Million dollars needed to start

there you have a Bridges integrity involved ?

not gonna happen unless they build a Multi-Million dollar Bridge Bypass first.

That is unless Army Corp themselves Want the treasure

 

[ARC]

Jeff..
Why do I feel that guys like you and I could come up with realistic plan to remove within 1 month...
Have simplistic yet effective plans in place...
Have tar removed and recycled...
And have cache removed in perfect condition...
Within say... the 6 months (LOL put moths) they spent debating...
And a website up and running with every detail of cache within a year.

 

[jeff of pa]

I don't know about a Month
But within Our Lifetimes at Least

which I don't see happening there

 

[ARC]

Errr I re-read what I wrote... Sounds like I said a month...
Six months.. heh
Nah man...
Barge with bucket... six months...
24 hour 2 shifts...
Just like a Yukon gold op.

They should have removed that tar years ago anyway...
What an environmental disaster.

 

[DIGGER33]

Very Cool Read!

 

[TheSleeper]

The munitions, if indeed they are munitions, are said to be buried in 40,000 tons of black tar that spilled into the river several years ago from a now-defunct power plant.

From a power plant??
What the heck is a power plant doing with 40,000 tons of black tar. I could understand this if it was a construction plant, which manufactured concrete/Asphalt/tar for the construction/road industry but a power plant.

 

[jeff of pa]

The munitions, if indeed they are munitions, are said to be buried in 40,000 tons of black tar that spilled into the river several years ago from a now-defunct power plant.

From a power plant??
What the heck is a power plant doing with 40,000 tons of black tar. I could understand this if it was a construction plant, which manufactured concrete/Asphalt/tar for the construction/road industry but a power plant.

even so, in order for tar to "Spill" it needs to Pour.
considering Tars normal consistency, as soon as it hit water it would have Thickened.
it would not seep below the top layer of ground/gravel.

They seem to think this Huge cache of confederate weapons
never moved from that spot or got covered over in the 150 plus years it was in the drink

to me they are taking allot for granted.

they should be saying buried a few feet under 40,000 tons of black tar.
unless the Spill happened the same year they were dumped in
should be like a very lumpy parking lot under the water they need to tear up

 

[Jason in Enid]

even so, in order for tar to "Spill" it needs to Pour.
considering Tars normal consistency, as soon as it hit water it would have Thickened.
it would not seep below the top layer of ground/gravel.

They seem to think this Huge cache of confederate weapons
never moved from that spot or got covered over in the 150 plus years it was in the drink

to me they are taking allot for granted.

they should be saying buried a few feet under 40,000 tons of black tar.
unless the Spill happened the same year they were dumped in
should be like a very lumpy parking lot under the water they need to tear up

Idiot archies who just make @!#$ up to make themselves sound intelligent.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

That's idiot reporters, not archaeologists.

The contaminant is TLM (Tar Like Material) formed from coal-tar, the waste product of a coal gassification plant upstream. It settled out and did what heavy hydrocarbons do. Stuck together and made a tar layer in the sediment.

Here's the clean-up report from the SC Dept of Health & Environment Control (Bioies, not Archies). ;-)

DHEC: Overview and History