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In Ferndale, near Bellingham, another industrial tank has come under scrutiny because of serious safety concerns.
While catastrophic failures are rare, the consequences can be disastrous.
When you consider where the Cherry Point tank is situated, its obsolete design becomes even more concerning. Risk is determined not only by the probability of a failure, but also by the consequences if a failure were to occur.
The lesson from many industrial accidents is not that aging infrastructure inevitably fails. It is that communities often wait too long to replace it.
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