Vehicle through the ice...

[Winnisquamer]

Originally Posted by budman

I was out there fishing on Saturday and about 4:00 one of my flags went up. When I went to check it, I discovered that the hole was filled with black oil. I checked the other traps we were using most of them were covered with oil. I had to bring the traps home and clean them with dish detergent. I hope the oil is gone before next weekends fishing derby.

Who pays for the oil/gas clean up? I would be a little ticked off if that affected my water front property. Does insurance cover that type of thing assuming your insurance covers an incident like this or do they only cover the cost of the vehicle and the environmental damage is on the owner?

[AC2717]

Originally Posted by Winnisquamer

Who pays for the oil/gas clean up? I would be a little ticked off if that affected my water front property. Does insurance cover that type of thing assuming your insurance covers an incident like this or do they only cover the cost of the vehicle and the environmental damage is on the owner?

yes, if it is a result of a covered type of loss, however your policy will have a specific limit for pollution $5k, $10K, $20k and the like.

if the fluids come out of the vehicle itself yes there is coverage, if you were transporting the fluids, i.e gas can, oil can or container, then there would not be coverage

[Woodsy]

Not that I want to see anything go into the lake, and I will probably get flamed for this..

But you guys are talking like a car is the same as the Mount or some sort of major spill!

A typical car or truck only holds 5-8 quarts of "heavy oil" and at most 30-40 gallons of gas assuming a full tank. Both which are pretty sealed up. So while some oil and or gas would leak out, it would be very minimal. Any gas will eventually evaporate and any oil would most likely be dissipated rapidly.

There is very little possibility of damage to the lake...

Woodsy

[SAB1]

Agree with Woodsy.

[ITD]

Originally Posted by Woodsy

Not that I want to see anything go into the lake, and I will probably get flamed for this..

But you guys are talking like a car is the same as the Mount or some sort of major spill!

A typical car or truck only holds 5-8 quarts of "heavy oil" and at most 30-40 gallons of gas assuming a full tank. Both which are pretty sealed up. So while some oil and or gas would leak out, it would be very minimal. Any gas will eventually evaporate and any oil would most likely be dissipated rapidly.

There is very little possibility of damage to the lake...

Woodsy

Gasoline is highly volatile and evaporates quickly. Oil dissipates and breaks down plus there are microbes that eat it, I doubt it will be a long term issue.

[Outdoorsman]

Originally Posted by ITD

Gasoline is highly volatile and evaporates quickly. Oil dissipates and breaks down plus there are microbes that eat it, I doubt it will be a long term issue.

You pretty much repeated exactly what "woodsy" said.....

[ITD]

Originally Posted by Outdoorsman

You pretty much repeated exactly what "woodsy" said.....

Woodsy said microbes eat oil? Sorry Woodsy, I missed that.

[Rusty]

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[budman]

I stand corrected. I should have said "what looked like oil". DES was there yesterday and said it was remnants of campfires but it sure looked like oil. In all the years I have fished I've never had my holes fill with anything black. I thought that because we were in the bay where the truck went in it was oil.
NoBozo you're wrong. Because I only have 13 post in 10 years it doesn't mean I have an agenda. I'm glad nobody was hurt. I was there, it did happen, and I do fish. I was just concerned that there might be oil in the lake.

[NoBozo]

No worry's Budman. I accept your explanation. You need to post more often. NB