Selected Report: B-183-2009
| Spill Report Information |
| Spill Number: |
B-183-2009 |
| Report Status: |
Final Report |
| MCD Town: |
SEARSPORT |
| Local Name: |
SEARSPORT |
| Primary Responder: |
NATHAN THOMPSON |
| Primary Product: |
#6 FUEL OIL {06} - 30.00 ESTIMATE
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| Subject/Owner: |
GAC CHEMICAL CORPORATION - - |
| I. EVENT |
| Spill Info |
| Type: |
Oil Incident |
| Source: |
Storage Unit - Aboveground Storage Tank |
| Cause: |
Accident - Human Error |
| Spill Date/Time |
| Spill Date/Time: |
03/13/2009
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| Reporter Type/Detection Method |
| Type: |
Subject/Spiller {2} |
| Method: |
Visual Product |
| Reported Date/Time |
| Reported Date/Time: |
03/13/2009
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| Subject/Spiller (Potential Responsible Party) |
| Contact: |
GAC CHEMICAL CORPORATION
KIDDER POINT ROAD
PO BOX 436
SEARSPORT ME 04974-0436 USA
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| Comment: |
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| Primary Responder and Other Employees |
| Contact(s): |
NATHAN THOMPSON (Primary Responder)
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| Comment: |
No Further Response Action Expected |
| II. SITE |
| Location |
| Location Type: |
Business - Industrial {ID} |
| Name: |
GAC CHEMICAL CORP |
| Street Address: |
KIDDER POINT RD |
| MCD Town: |
SEARSPORT |
| Local Name: |
SEARSPORT |
| State/Province: |
ME |
| Spill Point |
| Spill Point: |
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| Wells and Media Affected |
| Wells Affected: |
0 Wells Impacted/ 0 Wells At Risk
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| Media Affected: |
Inland Surface Water {I}
|
| Tanks Involved |
| Tanks Involved: |
NONE
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| III. CLEANUP |
| Product Reported: |
#6 FUEL OIL {06} |
| Products Found/Amount Spilled: |
#6 FUEL OIL {06} - 30.00 ESTIMATE
(Primary Product) |
| Material Recovered: |
NONE
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| Recovery/Treatment Method: |
NONE
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| Cleanup DTREE: |
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| Disposal Information: |
OM=oil impacted sorbents disposed through Clean Harbors of ME Hampden. |
| IV. NARRATIVE |
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3/13/09 Peter Godwin of GAC Chemical reported a 30 gallon #6 oil spill at the entered location. The spill was from a 275 gallon tote tank that had overflowed with oil. The product spilled onto the boiler room floor and was starting to run into a floor drain. The leak was discovered by a security guard who closed the cover to the drain to stop the flow of oil into it. The tote was situated between two boilers that are contained in bermed areas of the boiler room. It's my understanding that the tote was not in one of these bermed areas.The boiler room floor drain leads to a drainage system identified as the No. 4 Outfall. Prior to the outfall there is a sump that is accessible through a manhole. At the time of the report no evidence of oil was observed in the sump or at the outfall pipe. No oil was observed later during post spill inspections of these areas. See attached GAC follow-up letter dated March 24, 2009, to the Department.GAC deployed sorbents to the spill area and collected approximately 20 cubic feet of waste. Clean Harbors was hired by GAC to pick up and dispose of the waste. Precautionary sorbents were also placed in the sump and outfall areas.GAC had been experimenting with burning a mixture of bio-fuel and #6 fuel oil in it's 200 hp boiler. Bio-fuel and #6 oil of various mixtures were placed in the tote and feed to the boiler. The night of the spill the boiler was placed back on the #6 oil feed supply, but a valve connected to a recycling line from boiler back to the tote was not shut off. This open valve allowed unburned #6 oil in the boiler to feed back to the tote which eventually overfilled. See attached GAC letter for additional details of the bio-fuel/#6 oil trials. In addition, the floor drain cover had also been left open by mistake due to a recent boiler feed water overflow.GAC instituted a boil room inspection log and placed sorbents in the boiler room.No further Response action anticipated.
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| V.ATTACHMENTS |
| None |
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