Posted on 07/04/2018 4:21:23 PM PDT by BBell
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Whiskey barrels were piled in a mountainous heap Wednesday after the rest of a whiskey storage warehouse collapsed in Kentucky, nearly two weeks after part of the decades-old structure came crashing down.
The remainder of the massive structure collapsed at the Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown, Nelson County Emergency Management spokesman Milt Spalding said. No injuries were reported in either collapse, he said.
"It is a mountain of bourbon barrels," he said Wednesday.
Environmental and wildlife officials were on the scene to determine if any whiskey spilled into a nearby waterway, he said. The distillery owner Sazerac, a Louisiana-based spirits company, already was facing a state fine stemming from the initial collapse.
In a statement, the company said its employees "worked quickly to contain the spill" Wednesday, with none of the new runoff entering any waterways.
After the initial collapse last month, the company said the damaged warehouse had held about 18,000 barrels of aging spirits. Up to half the barrels inside were affected by the first collapse, it said.
The company said at the time that the collapse had affected "a mix of various distilled products at various ages." On Wednesday, it said it did not know how many barrels can be salvaged or what caused the initial collapse.
Cleanup crews have been at the scene for days, and the company called in "more resources" after the second collapse, Spalding said Wednesday. The warehouse was built in the 1940s.
Following the first collapse, a Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet spokesman said Sazerac would be cited for failing to report the spill of whiskey in a timely manner and for polluting waters. The spokesman said Barton 1792 moved quickly to stop the alcohol from entering the creek but didn't alert the state quickly enough.
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That area will stink of whiskey for months.
Single tear runs down my eye (like the Indian in that commercial long ago)
What whiskey did they store there?
Can't you smell that smell
Surely all those barrels aren’t destroyed!
...in a related story,a drunk muskrat
was capture and held for threatening two township dogs and sexually harassing Ms.Rathbone’s cat
A crying shame!
Hey I got a Big Truck...
Let’s Go Boys!
Block off the creek and charge to get whiskey flavored cajun fish!
I weep!
Powder post beetles
Little hole drillers
The state requires 48 hour advance notice of all disasters. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
“wildlife officials were on the scene to determine if any whiskey spilled into a nearby waterway,”.................... LOL, that’s easy, there should be more pilgrims there than Lourdes lapping up all the liquid that enters the waterway.
LOL
And the problem is what exactly? Aging Kentucky Bourbon in various stages...Yum!
so, wonder why they didn’t try to empty out the rest of the warehouse as a precaution, but instead just decided to risk their remaining stock?
If the whiskey spilled into a waterway, they would just have bourbon and branch water.
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