Buncefield: Emergency fire water pond (1)
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Buncefield: Emergency fire water pond (1)
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 12 Apr 2009
Buncefield Oil Depot has several of these ponds scattered around the site. This one is on Buncefield Lane. Just how effective these ponds were in helping to deal with the disastrous explosion of 11 December 2005 is not known by an ordinary layman. Just over the boundary to the right is the site of the original Buncefield farm from which the oil depot got its name.
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Image Location
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51.763873
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-0.429482