Houston Ship Channel Closed By Beef Fat

Houston Ship Channel Closed By Beef Fat Spill

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

According to a report from Dow Jones Newswires, the northern end of the Houston Ship Channel was closed Jan. 4 after some 15,000 gallons of beef fat spilled into the waterway from a ruptured storage tank. In all, about 250,000 gallons of beef tallow spilled from a land-based tank owned by privately held agricultural product firm Jacob Stern and Sons Inc. The 15,000 gallons of fat that reached the waterway did so via storm drains.

(Source: Dow Jones Newswires)

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