Emergency generators can leak!!
Posted: 7:35 pm PDT October 2, 2010
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- About one thousand gallons of diesel fuel have spilled from a ten-story building and into a storm drain and surrounding concrete in San Jose Saturday evening, a fire captain said.
Firefighters responded to a 5:15 p.m. call that fuel had been leaking out of an AT&T Corp. building at South Almaden Blvd., San Jose fire Captain Barry Stallard said.
On the building's roof, arriving crews discovered an engine -- meant to power the building in the event of an outage -- was inexplicably leaking diesel fuel into the roof's drain and down to the street, Stallard said.
The drain has leaked fuel into the nearby sewage system and onto a surrounding concrete recreational area where people jog.
The engine has a fuel capacity of about 100 gallons, Stallard said, but is connected to tanks in the building parking lot that hold about 50,000 gallons.
The building operates AT&T's 911 hub, which is used to route residents' emergency calls to local dispatchers. It also operates standard phone service.
Service has not been affected by the spill, Stallard said.
Almaden Boulevard is closed between West San Fernando and West Santa Clara streets, Stallard said.
No injuries have been reported.
Crews are continuing to respond to the incident with no estimation of when the oil will stop leaking or when the roads will be reopened.
From http://www.ktvu.com
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
AT&T Building Leaks 1,000 Gallons Of Diesel Fuel
Monday, October 4, 2010
Washington University to Pay Fine for Hazardous Issues
Posted 27 Sep 2010
Washington University in St. Louis is paying a $15,000 civil penalty over what the federal government calls "hazardous waste management issues."
The school also will spend at least $45,000 on a supplemental project to help clean local high school laboratories of hazardous waste, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said.
Washington University’s hazardous waste problems at the school’s Danforth and School of Medicine campuses were uncovered through inspections conducted in April 2008.
Inspections found violations for failure to make hazardous waste determinations and for operating a treatment, storage and disposal facility without a proper permit. There also were "issues related to the storage of hazardous waste beyond legal time limits," failure to properly label hazardous waste storage containers, and failure to manage waste lamps among the problems, the EPA said.
As part of a settlement, the school will spend a minimum of $45,000 on a supplemental environmental project to address hazardous waste issues in 12 high schools within the St. Louis Public Schools District.
The university agreed to conduct ongoing clean-out operations at laboratories at the two campuses, the EPA said.
*For more information on news about waste and recycling go to www.wasterecyclingnews.com
From: http://veoliaes-ts.com/buzz-newsletters/September2010/3
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