USA - Chlorine & Fluoride leak.
Chlorine gas sickens 5 employees of city utility
Saturday, February 24, 2007By KEITH CLINESTimes Staff Writer keith.clines@htimes.com
Officials say leakat water treatment plant a minor one Five Huntsville Utilities employees were taken to the hospital Friday afternoon after inhaling chlorine gas at a northeast Huntsville water treatment plant. Huntsville Utilities said the leak was minor. The employees were taken to Huntsville Hospital as a precautionary measure, said Jay Gates, spokesman for the Huntsville Fire & Rescue Service. Four employees were treated and released, and one was being kept overnight as a precaution, he said. Huntsville Utilities, citing privacy issues, said it would not release the employees' names.
The leak was reported shortly after 1 p.m. at the water treatment plant for the Dallas-Lincoln well at 140 Neely Ave. The plant is behind the Lincoln Baptist Church, south of Oakwood Avenue and just east of Meridian Street. Utilities employees were filling a water tank on a trailer hitched to a pickup truck used for field work when the chlorine gas leaked, utilities spokesman Bill Yell said. The employees were overcome by the fumes, he said. "It's kind of the equivalent of strong bleach," Gates said at the scene. "It dissipates real fast."
Firefighters and the department's Hazardous Materials Team found a chemical release of sodium hypochlorite (bleach), hydrofluorosilicic acid (fluoride) and sodium thiosulfate, Gates said in a statement.
The release of the chemicals was confined to a small area and neutralized, he said, and vapor levels in the building and surrounding areas dropped to normal range a few minutes later.
The leak presented no danger to the drinking water system or to the environment, Yell said
Saturday, February 24, 2007By KEITH CLINESTimes Staff Writer keith.clines@htimes.com
Officials say leakat water treatment plant a minor one Five Huntsville Utilities employees were taken to the hospital Friday afternoon after inhaling chlorine gas at a northeast Huntsville water treatment plant. Huntsville Utilities said the leak was minor. The employees were taken to Huntsville Hospital as a precautionary measure, said Jay Gates, spokesman for the Huntsville Fire & Rescue Service. Four employees were treated and released, and one was being kept overnight as a precaution, he said. Huntsville Utilities, citing privacy issues, said it would not release the employees' names.
The leak was reported shortly after 1 p.m. at the water treatment plant for the Dallas-Lincoln well at 140 Neely Ave. The plant is behind the Lincoln Baptist Church, south of Oakwood Avenue and just east of Meridian Street. Utilities employees were filling a water tank on a trailer hitched to a pickup truck used for field work when the chlorine gas leaked, utilities spokesman Bill Yell said. The employees were overcome by the fumes, he said. "It's kind of the equivalent of strong bleach," Gates said at the scene. "It dissipates real fast."
Firefighters and the department's Hazardous Materials Team found a chemical release of sodium hypochlorite (bleach), hydrofluorosilicic acid (fluoride) and sodium thiosulfate, Gates said in a statement.
The release of the chemicals was confined to a small area and neutralized, he said, and vapor levels in the building and surrounding areas dropped to normal range a few minutes later.
The leak presented no danger to the drinking water system or to the environment, Yell said
posted by Bill at
9:39 AM
1 Comments:
"Firefighters and the department's Hazardous Materials Team found a chemical release of sodium hypochlorite (bleach), hydrofluorosilicic acid (fluoride) and sodium thiosulfate,"....
and how did they so quickly isolate which chemcial caused the illness?
How would a headline of
"USA - Fluoride & Chlorine leak". look in the media....?
Hmmm might make some one query whether Fluorides are goodies or naddies... and that would never dp
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Middle Child, at 25 February, 2007
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