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| Keywords: A LIQUID CHLORINE BARGE, AFTER BREAKING LOOSE FROM ITS TUG BECAME LODGED AGAINST THE MCALPINE DAM ON THE OHIO RIVER... - NARA - 543978.jpg Scope and content A LIQUID CHLORINE BARGE AFTER BREAKING LOOSE FROM ITS TUG BECAME LODGED AGAINST THE MCALPINE DAM ON THE OHIO RIVER AND COULD NOT BE SET FREE IF THE TANKS ON THIS BARGE WERE PUNCTURED THE LIQUID CHLORINE WOULD TURN INTO A POISONOUS GAS THAT COULD DEVASTATE MUCH OF THE NEARBY CITY OF LOUISVILLE THE AREA WAS EVACUATED FOR 24 HOURS UNTIL THE BARGE WAS STABILIZED AND THE CHLORINE SAFELY PUMPED FROM ITS TANKS BY AN EMERGENCY TEAM FROM THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS A MONITORING SYSTEM TO DETECT CHLORINE LEAKAGE WAS SET UP BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY AND THE COAST GUARD AND ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS WERE CALLED IN TO SUPERVISE OPERATIONS General notes 543978 Local identifier 412-DA-1485 Environmental Protection Agency 12/02/1970 - NARA-Author Strode William 1937- Photographer 2083691 <br /> Louisville Jefferson county Kentucky United States North and Central America inhabited place 4201826 38 25 -85 75 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 03/1972 Record group Record Group 412 Records of the Environmental Protection Agency 1944 - 2006 Record group ARC 708 DOCUMERICA The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern compiled 1972 - 1977 Series ARC 542493 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers Agency-Assigned Identifier 025/45/001485<br /> NAIL Control Number NWDNS-412-DA-1485 Other versions <gallery> File A_LIQUID_CHLORINE_BARGE _AFTER_BREAKING_LOOSE_FROM_ITS_TUG_BECAME_LODGED_AGAINST_THE_MCALPINE_DAM_ON_THE_OHIO_RIVER _-_NARA_-_543978 tif tif File A_LIQUID_CHLORINE_BARGE _AFTER_BREAKING_LOOSE_FROM_ITS_TUG_BECAME_LODGED_AGAINST_THE_MCALPINE_DAM_ON_THE_OHIO_RIVER _-_NARA_-_543978 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov McAlpine Dam Ohio River barges Chlorine 1972 in Kentucky March 1972 in the United States Evacuations Ship disasters in 1972 | ||||
