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A barge carrying methanol has been faraway from the Ohio River after being caught for greater than per week.
The barge was one in every of two that turned caught towards the McAlpine Dam close to Louisville, Kentucky, on April 28 after they broke free from a vessel on the river.
Methanol was pumped from the barge Friday. When sufficient was transferred out, crews safely pulled the barge off the construction, in accordance with a information launch from Louisville Metro Emergency Companies.
“At no time in the course of the restoration operations has there been any indication that the stranded tank barge’s cargo holds are compromised or that any methanol was launch into the surroundings,” the discharge says.
Assessments because the incident have discovered no signal of methanol in air or water, officers stated.
Methanol is a extremely flammable alcoholic chemical compound. It’s thought-about another gas beneath the Vitality Coverage Act of 1992, in accordance with the US Division of Vitality. Methanol was used within the Nineties as a transportation gas however is not developed for that function, the division stated.
Crews will proceed to free the remaining barge caught on the dam. It’s carrying corn.