TRIRAM Diesel Fuel Spill Portland, CT 29 Jan 09

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TRI-RAM Diesel Fuel SpillPortland, CT29 Jan 09

• Incident Management Division
• Sector Long Island Sound

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Initial Report/ Response Actions

• SLIS CC recvd NRC notification reporting approx.
  1000 gals of 2 diesel had been discharged from
  an above ground storage tank.
• SLIS Duty response personnel responded to the
  scene quickly engaged RP, CT DEP, OSRO (CT
  Tank).
• Immediate clean up response was focused primarily
  on secondary containment w/ VAC Trucks, removing
  snow and diesel fuel. At the time, an unknown
  amount of fuel had discharged to CT River ice
  coverage served as natural boom.

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Initial Response Actions cont.

• SLIS Response personnel began investigation into
  cause of discharge. Facility was in care taker
  status (No water side ops). Storage tank had
  12,000 gal capacity fed boiler used to heat
  asphalt storage tanks onsite.
• Facility discovered they were burning through
  more diesel fuel than usual (two deliveries
  within the same month). Approx total discharged
  determined to be 8,000 gals.
• Cause attributed to re-circ line elbow from
  storage tank (frozen/ cracked in half).

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Approx 1000 yds of impacted shoreline along CT
River
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Secondary containment w/ product
Boiler Room
12,000 gal storage tank
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Source of Discharge
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Fuel pump from tank to boiler
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Clean Up/ Remediation Operations

• CT Tank used VAC trucks to collect product within
  containment area and CT River.
• 40 cubic yd roll off containers were utilized to
  dispose of saturated soil/snow.
• Due to Ice Coverage on CT River, CT Tank had to
  utilize chain saws to cut through ice in order to
  deploy containment boom.

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Obstacles to Clean Up/ Remediation

• Although ice served as natural boom, it also
  created an arduous/slow removal process of the
  saturated ice (cut bag ice, human chain up
  hill, loading pick up truck).
• Melting Re-freezing prompted continual boom
  maintenance/ difficult w/Jon Boats (anchoring/
  adjusting/ pulley system).

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Emulsified Oil/ Ice
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Clean Up/ Remediation Numbers

• Approx 2650 gals of product recovered from within
  the secondary containment. Another 1600 gals
  recovered from the CT River.
• Approx 150 tons of ice/debris/soil removed.
  Secondary containment has been backfilled.
• RP hired subcontractor to install three
  monitoring wells within secondary containment.

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Access to CT River/ Boom deployment
Well 3
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Well 2
Storage Tank
Boiler Room
Well 1
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Shoreline Assessment

• After two weeks, warmer weather melted a majotiry
  of the ice affecting the clean up operations. IMD
  was able to conduct a thorough ½ mi SCAT from
  the RT17/66 bridge North to the TRI-RAM facility.
  

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O6Feb09 TRI-RAM SCAT from RT17/66 Bridge North
to TRI-RAM Facility Portland, CT (Aerial)
BB Petroleum
Ice
SCAT conducted/ No oil/sheen detected Boom
deployment Oiled ice/debris
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O6Feb09 TRI-RAM SCAT from RT17/66 Bridge North
to TRI-RAM Facility Portland, CT (Aerial)
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Ice
Safety Kleen
SCAT conducted/ No oil/sheen detected Boom
deployment Oiled ice/debris
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O6Feb09 TRI-RAM SCAT from RT17/66 Bridge North
to TRI-RAM Facility Portland, CT (Aerial)
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Boiler Room
Ice
Storage Tank
TRI-RAM
SCAT conducted/ No oil/sheen detected Boom
deployment Oiled ice/debris
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N
O6Feb09 TRI-RAM SCAT from RT17/66 Bridge North
to TRI-RAM Facility Portland, CT (Shore side)
B B Petroleum
SCAT conducted/ No oil/sheen detected Boom
deployment Oiled ice/debris
Ice
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O6Feb09 TRI-RAM SCAT from RT17/66 Bridge North
to TRI-RAM Facility Portland, CT (Shore side)
Safety Kleen
SCAT conducted/ No oil/sheen detected Boom
deployment Oiled ice/debris
Ice
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O6Feb09 TRI-RAM SCAT from RT17/66 Bridge North
to TRI-RAM Facility Portland, CT (Shore side)
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Safety Kleen
SCAT conducted/ No oil/sheen detected Boom
deployment Oiled ice/debris
Ice
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TRI-RAM
O6Feb09 TRI-RAM SCAT from RT17/66 Bridge North
to TRI-RAM Facility Portland, CT (Shore side)
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SCAT conducted/ No oil/sheen detected Boom
deployment Oiled ice/debris
Ice
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Boom Maintenance

• On 12 Feb 09, ice had thoroughly melted. CT Tank
  kept the hard containment boom in place, with a
  second layer of absorbent boom within the hard
  boom.
• CT Tank is currently visiting the site once a
  week to check the status of the boom and change
  out soiled absorbent boom as necessary.

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12Feb09 TRI-RAM Facility Portland, CT (Update/
Boom Maintenance)
TRI-RAM
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Boom deployment Oiled ice/debris
250ft section of oiled ice/ emulsified oil/ light
sheen
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12Feb09 TRI-RAM Facility Portland, CT IMD
Pictures w/in containment boom
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CT Tank changing out absorbent boom
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12Feb09 TRI-RAM Facility Portland, CT IMD
Pictures w/in containment boom
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12Feb09 TRI-RAM Facility Portland, CT IMD
Pictures w/in containment boom
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12Feb09 TRI-RAM Facility Portland, CT IMD
Pictures w/in containment boom
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After Action / Lessons Learned

• Ensure all surrounding municipalities are
  notified.
• Outstanding coordination between CT DEP, RP, CT
  Tank, Coast Guard, and Local Government.
• Accurate and timely press releases and interviews
  ensured public was well aware of what was going
  on.