Re: (erielack) Water Bottles & Tree Huggers

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In a message dated 9/18/2007 9:42:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
graytrainpix_@_hotmail.com writes:

Drew /  PVO wasn't the only waste-water operation on the EL.  There was once  
an Avon perfume plant on the Piermont Branch about two miles east of SF  
Tower (Suffern, NY).  The EL got a tank or two of waste water now and  then 
from it.  One of the Ford Drills would go up the branch and  retrieve the 
car, and place it in Hillburn Yard for pickup by an eastbound  road freight.  
One summer evening in 1967 I was hanging out at  Rutherford station (NJ) and 
an eastbound freight came by with a tank car  near the head end spilling some 
liquid out of an open spigot in its  belly.  The stuff was splashing all over 
the roadbed, and I thought  it was all some terrible mistake; perhaps the 
town would have to be  evacuated because it was toxic waste or was causing 
poisonous fumes.   But no, no one at all was upset about it.  It hardly had 
an odor to  it.  About a year later, an EL towerman told me that he saw the 
same  thing a couple of times; it was wastewater out of the Avon plant, and 
the  spigot was opened intentionally.  In another year or two, the state and  
federal environmental agencies got up to speed, and wastewater dumping in  
transit because history.

Jim Gerofsky


This is why any one with any scruples at all would never use the  word "TREE 
HUGGER"  in a negative context. On behalf of our children  and grand children 
like thank goodness we have them.
 
Bob Bahrs
 



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