Quote:A regulation requiring manufacturing plants that deal in large quantities of contaminated water cycling to use steel or reinforced concrete holding tanks rather than large ponds. Multiple tanks rather than one large one would like mitigate the potential of a massive failure due to a large sinkhole if they were spaced enough apart. One example off the top of my head.


Should this be a regulation? Not my call but I have spent over 15 years in the construction design field and deal with a lot of what seem like silly regulations but in the end they are all in place to lower the human or environmental cost should a myriad of different failures occur. I know that's not important to some people because money but that is the reason for most regulations.