Journal Tuesday

Up and out early today and in the office to check in with folks. There is another case of a plumber replacing an ancient pump from a deep well and wanting to know if it was made with PCB's in the cooling oil. They date from the 1950's and into the 1970's and lucky for the well owner this one did not spin and labor until its outer casing failed puking the cooling oil into the well and giving the tap water a funny smell. So I dig out the paper copy of a 1992 the Wisconsin environmental department report listing the serial numbers of offending pumps. It took a while to find it so I scanned it in to email to the folks in the office. I got to the last page to find the business card of the author at the State of Wisconsin and decided not to bother scanning that since the guy is probably long retired, phone number given to some newly minted college graduate in charge of the department's blog or something.