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Longview mill implosion: Caustic white liquor falls through regulatory gaps

columbian.com · 3dShare

It sounded like a bomb, a succession of two shocking blasts, when in the winter of 1993, a white liquor clarifier tank exploded at an Oregon paper mill. Two pipe fitters lay dead. Neighbors’ homes rattled as debris seemed to fall from the sky.

First report: White liquor, key in Longview implosion, falls through regulatory gaps — seattletimes.com, 4d