Here are some selected news articles from the week ended 06 March 2021. Part 2 is available here.
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Fuel supplies drop most on record as US oil refining collapses, leading to largest ever jump in oil supplies
Refinery utilization at an all time low, 10% lower than it s ever been; oil refined is least on record; record jump in oil inventories, record drop in gasoline inventories; distillates production at a 26 year low, distillates inventories drop most in 18 years; largest jump in oil imports in 39 weeks.
Fredericksburg officials invited state lawmakers and representatives from CSX Transportation to Railroad Avenue in the Mayfield neighborhood Friday afternoon. The aim was to provide a visual of how closely the tanker cars that CSX uses to transport propane to a customer in Caroline County sits to the homes of Mayfield residents.
But there was just one problem: For one of the few times in the past two months, there were no tanker cars in the railyard.
Still, Fredericksburg City Manager Tim Baroody provided lawmakers and CSX officials with a breakdown of the 56 tankers he counted in the neighborhood from Feb. 24 through March 4. All but three of the tankers contained liquefied petroleum gas; two had unidentifiable contents and one contained chlorine.
Fredericksburg officials invited state lawmakers and representatives from CSX Transportation to Railroad Avenue in the Mayfield neighborhood Friday afternoon. The aim was to provide a visual of how closely the tanker cars that CSX uses to transport propane to a customer in Caroline County sits to the homes of Mayfield residents.
But there was just one problem: For one of the few times in the past two months, there were no tanker cars in the railyard.
Still, Fredericksburg City Manager Tim Baroody provided lawmakers and CSX officials with a breakdown of the 56 tankers he counted in the neighborhood from Feb. 24 through March 4. All but three of the tankers contained liquefied petroleum gas; two had unidentifiable contents and one contained chlorine.
March 3, 2021
The Fairfax County Park Authority will soon begin construction on the next segment of the Pohick Stream Valley Trail between Burke Station Park and Hillside Road.
The contractor, AP Construction in Annandale, Virginia, is scheduled to mobilize on site on or around March 8, 2021, weather permitting. Contingent on the weather, this project will continue throughout the year with completion anticipated by the end of 2021. Approximately 2,200 linear feet of 8-foot-wide asphalt trail and one fiberglass bridge will be constructed. The project will connect the existing trail network within Burke Station Park to Hillside Road near Old Keene Mill Road. This connection will provide increased access to recreational facilities and the Virginia Railway Express Rolling Road station. It will serve both pedestrians and cyclists and create approximately 2 miles of fully accessible continuous stream valley trail from Burke Lake Road to Hillside Road for persons of all abilities.
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