Flora-Gumps!

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Spending time with my family in Orange Beach! 
Bushwackers! 
Food and Drinks! 
Last trip before school starts! 
 

 

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Talking with my family, the ones that live on Avery Island. They went ahead and flooded the Salt Mine. 
 

Cargill Begins Flooding Its 3d Largest Salt Mine; MSHA Regulators Silent About 2020 Roof Collapse That Killed 2 Miners

Peter MantiusJune 9, 2022Uncategorized

AVERY ISLAND, LA, June 9, 2022 — As court petitioners and geologic experts warn that Cargill’s salt mining under Cayuga Lake risks a catastrophic mine collapse and flood, the company began closing one of its two other giant U.S. salt mines 18 months after a roof collapse there killed two miners.

Cargill began flooding its Avery Island salt mine Monday, leaving it with two U.S. rock salt mines — one under Lake Erie, the other under Cayuga Lake.Ronald Olivier photo

Cargill on Monday began intentionally flooding its Avery Island, La., facility as part of a months-long process of permanently shutting down the oldest salt mine in North America.

Neither the company nor federal mining regulators have provided a detailed accounting of the fatal December 2020 accident, which triggered wrongful death lawsuits against the company by the widows of the dead men.