By AP
Sheridan,WY – Plans are in the works to unload hydrochloric acid from trains into trucks at a site just outside Sheridan.
The site would unload five to ten rail cars a week. Each car would carry 20-thousand gallons of hydrochloric acid at 36 percent concentration.
The company proposing the unloading facility, EMIT, says no one would be in any danger.
But Mayor Dave Kinskey says he's against it.
Hydrochloric acid can produce chlorine gas when it encounters certain metals, such as zinc, iron or copper.