A broken oil pipe leaked 50,000 gallons of oil over a half-mile area in Atwater Village, a suburb of Los Angeles, early Thursday morning, and oil is now reportedly knee-deep on some streets.Atwater Village is up near Glendale, across the freeway from Griffith Park.
A reader did the math:
50,000 gallons = 6684 cubic feet.
A half-mile square area is 2,640 feet by 2,640 feet.
So, 6,684 cubic feet = 2,640 x 2,640 x (feet deep)
Solving for "feet deep" = 6,684 / 6,969,600 = 0.00096 feet
0.00096 feet x 12 inches / foot = 0.01 inch.
Short-kneed people, the writer noted.
More likely, the reporter couldn't estimate one-half square mile.
Or more likely, the reporter was watching the workers in a hole digging to get to the burst pipe.
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