Sunday, November 18, 2012

Oil On The Sidewalk

There are a lot of electrical items at the top of this electric power pole.
Beneath the power pole, there are puddles of oil on the sidewalk. Water from the recent rain is standing on top of the oil.
Here is another view showing oil all around the base of the power pole. The Oil splats in the foreground are in the direction of the prevailing wind compared with the power pole, and this oil might have fallen down from the power pole during windy weather.
The oil in the background is all around the power pole, and a bunch of the oil on the sidewalk has tracks through it. The electric transformer oil may contain toxic PCB's.
Up on the pole there is a 220 volt utility transformer and some high voltage, high frequency power filters mounted below. One of the high voltage, high frequency power filters is obviously leaking transformer oil, which falls down to form a (possibly toxic) puddle at the base of the pole including the nearby sidewalk.
It is a fact that the 220 volt utility transformer should be mounted lower than the high voltage filters. However, the main fact of this complaint is that one of the high voltage, high frequency power filters is obviously leaking transformer oil which is being picked up and tracked around the neighborhood on shoes, skate wheels, and bicycle wheels at the corner of Calora and Bonnie Cove.
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