Fluoride spill costly lesson for Marysville
MARYSVILLE — The $27,000 bill to clean up a July fluoride leak isn’t the end of it.
A 1,400 gallon tank of fluoride at the Marysville Water Filtration Plant leaked July 29. Marysville officials said they’ll be paying $5,000 of the $26,935 bill, with the city’s insurer covering the remainder.
The cost includes recoating the plant’s garage floor, replacing pipes and he spilled fluoride, and compensating the Marysville Fire Department, St. Clair County Emergency Management and Young’s Environmental.
But the costs aren’t expected to end there, because the city wants to make sure the incident isn’t repeated.
Bari Wrubel, supervisor of water and wastewater operations, said the leak affected one of three major chemical tanks before fluoride traveled into a drain on the south side of the plant and into the St. Clair River.
The faulty fluoride tank wasn’t entirely to blame for the impact of the spill. The tank’s secondary containment system also failed. Wrubel said the secondary containment isn’t inspected as rigorously as the tanks themselves.
“It was kind of an eye-opener. The rules are when you have chemical storage on stage, you have secondary containment,” he said. “But now we go back to make it a fool-proof system.”
The city will be making preventative repairs to all major tanks’ back-up containers at both the water and wastewater plants.
Wrubel said it was recommended the city place a better sealant on the floors of the systems and several feet up on the adjoining inside walls — at an estimated cost of $75,000 for the water plant and $50,000 for the wastewater plant.
A 1,400 gallon tank of fluoride at the Marysville Water Filtration Plant leaked July 29. Marysville officials said they’ll be paying $5,000 of the $26,935 bill, with the city’s insurer covering the remainder.
The cost includes recoating the plant’s garage floor, replacing pipes and he spilled fluoride, and compensating the Marysville Fire Department, St. Clair County Emergency Management and Young’s Environmental.
But the costs aren’t expected to end there, because the city wants to make sure the incident isn’t repeated.
Bari Wrubel, supervisor of water and wastewater operations, said the leak affected one of three major chemical tanks before fluoride traveled into a drain on the south side of the plant and into the St. Clair River.
The faulty fluoride tank wasn’t entirely to blame for the impact of the spill. The tank’s secondary containment system also failed. Wrubel said the secondary containment isn’t inspected as rigorously as the tanks themselves.
“It was kind of an eye-opener. The rules are when you have chemical storage on stage, you have secondary containment,” he said. “But now we go back to make it a fool-proof system.”
The city will be making preventative repairs to all major tanks’ back-up containers at both the water and wastewater plants.
Wrubel said it was recommended the city place a better sealant on the floors of the systems and several feet up on the adjoining inside walls — at an estimated cost of $75,000 for the water plant and $50,000 for the wastewater plant.
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1 Comments:
For something that's supposed to be safe it sure does take a whole heap of cash to put things right,re-coating the floor, replacing pipes makes you wonder just what damage it's doing to your insides when you drink the stuff...The tank’s secondary containment system also failed because they only seem to bother checking the tank, when really the clue is in the name "secondary containment" which is just as important as the bloody tank itself...Don't people read articles such as this and stop to think hang on i am drinking this stuff...
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