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5,000 gallons of molasses? A mere drip.

The Baltimore Focal@baltimorefocal.bsky.social

About 5,000 gallons of molasses entered the Inner Harbor after an overflow at Westway Feed Products’ Hull Street facility. Maryland inspectors found the company violated environmental law and ordered it to stop unauthorized discharges and clean up the release.

focalnews.orgState cites Baltimore feed plant after molasses reached Patapsco RiverAbout 5,000 gallons of molasses entered the Inner Harbor after an overflow at Westway Feed Products’ Hull Street facility. Maryland inspectors found the company violated environmental law and ordered it to stop unauthorized discharges and clean up the release.

26/10/26, 3:22 am8 reposts55 likes

Mark Eichin

@eichin.bsky.social

To be fair, the tank the spill came from was itself a million gallons (fortunately for the surroundings, the tank itself didn't fail, just overflowed - so there's still potential for a Boston-scale incident :-)

Universal Hub

@universalhub.com

By contrast, Boston's Great Molasses Flood involved roughly 2.3 million gallons of the stuff. www.universalhub.com/2023/day-mol...

universalhub.comThe day the molasses tank explodedToday is, of course, the anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood, when a poorly maintained tank of molasses on the North End waterfront exploded at 12:40 p.m. on an unseasonably warm January day, send...

Shawn

@smorr.bsky.social

Apparently my grandfather’s uncle, who was a garbage collector in the north end, was swept out to sea in the Boston flood