Mike Price, with M.A.P. EngineersA local engineer wants to build a “moonshine” pipeline through county property in the Bonny Oaks Industrial & Office Park.
Mike Price, with M.A.P. Engineers, has been meeting individually with Hamilton County commissioners about a proposed ethanol facility. Ethanol would be offloaded from rail cars on the east side of the park and pumped through an underground pipeline to nearby fuel distribution centers on Jersey Pike where it would be mixed with gasoline.
Price, the site engineer for the project, said local leaders and residents should not fear the facility and pipeline, which would be owned and operated by Englewood Enterprises.
“It’s basically moonshine,” he said of ethanol, which is mixed with 1 percent gasoline, then later often mixed with more gasoline for cars.
Mixing it with gasoline makes ethanol “to where it’s not drinkable,” he said.