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Post by robmcd on Feb 20, 2018 13:41:21 GMT
I have just seen this vid on youtube, look's to me like nothing is being done by CRT about this hazard.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2018 13:56:54 GMT
It is worth reading the statement from CRT at the end of the video.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 20, 2018 14:05:32 GMT
I bet the local boaters are gutted at being asked not to move their boats and being told that the usual 14 day rule is suspended until further notice.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2018 16:58:44 GMT
Afaik its the EA who deal with it as it is a major incident. Fwiw CRT have a bunch of volunteers going up there tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2018 16:59:53 GMT
I bet the local boaters are gutted at being asked not to move their boats and being told that the usual 14 day rule is suspended until further notice. Some boaters have been moaning that the oil is going to damage their boats. I don't really see that but its a bit of a slum area so there may be some very shagged boats which could possibly be damaged. Seems improbable.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2018 17:08:20 GMT
I don't see the problem. Oil stops your boat from rusting. Its people paying £600 a year to live on Zone 2 in London shouting about their rights and moaning about the system which allows them to do this Biting the hand that feeds them?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 20, 2018 17:09:30 GMT
I don't see the problem. Oil stops your boat from rusting. I imagine prolonged contact with oil would dissolve bitumen based blacking though?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2018 17:17:04 GMT
We'll have about 45 litres of dirty diesel sucked from the bottom of our fuel tank next week. I was thinking of taking it to Brighouse household waste but if they say I'm not a local resident and refuse to take it, I guess I could jump on a train to Tottenham Hale and pour it into the River Lea - no-one will know! Have you got a covert means of carrying it? Some sort of converted rucksack might work . 45 litres of diesel is about 35kg then you have the weight of the container.
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Post by lollygagger on Feb 20, 2018 17:20:34 GMT
We'll have about 45 litres of dirty diesel sucked from the bottom of our fuel tank next week. I was thinking of taking it to Brighouse household waste but if they say I'm not a local resident and refuse to take it, I guess I could jump on a train to Tottenham Hale and pour it into the River Lea - no-one will know! They're idiots not to take it. When I had some, about half your qty, the tip took it because I distracted them with my vw camper. Previously someone recommended tipping it down a road drain when nobody was looking.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 20, 2018 17:22:08 GMT
We'll have about 45 litres of dirty diesel sucked from the bottom of our fuel tank next week. I was thinking of taking it to Brighouse household waste but if they say I'm not a local resident and refuse to take it, I guess I could jump on a train to Tottenham Hale and pour it into the River Lea - no-one will know! I pumped out five litres of diesel from the bottom of my fuel tank last year, I hadn't done that since I owned the boat and I didn't know if it had ever been done. I was wondering beforehand how much more I would have to pump out before I got to clean diesel and I had plenty of empty 5 litre oil cans to hand but I was rather surprised (and pleased) to find that the first five litres was absolutely pure red diesel with no water or sediment in it whatsoever, even after it had been allowed to settle.
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Post by quaysider on Feb 20, 2018 18:29:56 GMT
We'll have about 45 litres of dirty diesel sucked from the bottom of our fuel tank next week. I was thinking of taking it to Brighouse household waste but if they say I'm not a local resident and refuse to take it, I guess I could jump on a train to Tottenham Hale and pour it into the River Lea - no-one will know! If you need to - bring it over here as I've still got my local tip pass... I can always pour it into the used oil bin in wakey...NOT in one container though as I'd not be able to lift it being a feeble bender! ... well down to that or the carpal tunnel ops.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2018 19:17:38 GMT
We'll have about 45 litres of dirty diesel sucked from the bottom of our fuel tank next week. I was thinking of taking it to Brighouse household waste but if they say I'm not a local resident and refuse to take it, I guess I could jump on a train to Tottenham Hale and pour it into the River Lea - no-one will know! If you need to - bring it over here as I've still got my local tip pass... I can always pour it into the used oil bin in wakey...NOT in one container though as I'd not be able to lift it being a feeble bender! ... well down to that or the carpal tunnel ops. I have trouble lifting anything over about 25kg. I've had a couple of scrap batteries on the pontoon (Rolls batteries replaced under warranty and they were 56kg each) I winched them out of the boat with a cable winch. Anyway they had been sitting there on the pontoon for ages and yesterday some old git (neighbour saw him and said he was about 70 !!) accessed the pontoon over the fence and grabbed the batteries and made off with them including manhandling them over the fence. For scrap. I was relieved as I could barely lift them and didn't fancy a pulled muscle again by carting them up the ramp and to the. bins. (I pulled a muscle last time I tried to move them and ended up getting an ultrasound scan about it as I thought it might bea hernia ! ). He must have been a fit bloke and thoroughly deserved his cash for scrap as far as I'm concerned
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Post by naughtyfox on Feb 20, 2018 19:20:53 GMT
Let's see what they say at Brighouse dump first.
We've done this four or five times before, sucking whatever's at the bottom of the tank. Sometimes it's been clean enough to pour back through a filter - after I let it stand for some hours/days, and then poured just the top part, leaving any dirt/water at the bottom. Last October we extracted 20 litres (four 5-litre containers) and it still looks murky.
On the subject of 'having a clearout/recycling', I wanted to go through all my boxes in the storeroom here at home, and in the car garage, at first to look for maps that would be relevant to our upcoming trips. Then I thought it's time to get rid of a lot of my books. I suppose I had been saving them 'for the future' but I think that future is here already; the books have just been sitting in boxes, and I am now sorting out those I want to keep and those that can go. The ones in Finnish will be shown to my daughter first (those she doesn't want to a charity shop?). Those in English I thought to take to our boat, and if we come across any nice boaters I could ask if there are any books they fancy, and to just take them. Rather too many to offer here and send by post (heavy stuff), so maybe I can take them over one rucksack at a time...
I understand people who have got rid of most of their possessions and moved onto a boat. We tend to gather a load of 'stuff' during our lives. When we die, someone will just take 99% of it round to the local dump.
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Post by naughtyfox on Feb 20, 2018 19:26:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2018 19:26:44 GMT
I thought it was really cold over there ?
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