Madisonvile Filter Plant #2 - Executive Summary |
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THE ACCIDENTAL RELEASE PREVENTION AND EMERGANCY RESPONSE POLICIES AT YOUR FACILITY THE CITY OF MADISONVILLE WATER PLANT #2 MAKES SURE ALL EMPLOYEES ARE TRAINED IN THE SAFE HANDLING OF CHEMICALS FOUND HERE ON SITE. OUR HAZAROUS COMUNICATION NOTE BOOK IS KEEPED UP TO DATE AT ALL TIMES, WE HAVE MONTHLY SAFETY MEETINGS HERE AT THE PLANT AND ALSO INVITE OUR VENDERS TO PUT ON SAFETY MEETINGS FOR US. THE CITY HAS HIRED AN REGISTERD NURSE ALL SO TO GIVE APPLICABLE SAFETY TRAINING FOR ALL NEW EMPLOYEES COME TO THIS FACILITY. WE HAVE CHLORINE EMERGANCY REPAIR KITS HERE AT THE PLANT. ALL LARGE REPORTABLE RELEASES WILL BE HANDLED BY QUALIFIED PERSONAL NOT BY EMPLOYEES OF THE WATER PLANT ACCORDING TO OUR EMERGANCY RESPONCE PLAN AND OUR SARA TITLE 3. YOUR FACILITY AND THE REGULATE SUBSTANCE THE MADISONVILLE WATER PLANT IS AN EIGHT MILLION GALLON PERDAY POTABLE WATER TREATMENT FACILITY LOPCATED AT 850 LAKE PEE WEE ROAD MADISONVILLE KENTUCKY. THE MAIN WATER SOURCE COMES FOR AN 455 ACEAR RESER VOIR LOCATED WEST OF THE PLANT. ONE OF THE MAIN RESPONSIBLITY OF A WATER TREATMENT PLANT IS TO PRODUCE WATER FREE FROM DISEASE CAUSING BACTERIA. WE USE CHLORINE AS OUR PRIMARY DISINFECTANT. CHLORINE IS ON THE E.P.A. REGULATED SUBSTANCE LIST. WE HAVE AS MUCH AS 8,000LBS OF CHLORINE ON SITE AT ONE TIME OR THE OTHER. WE ARE GOING TO CUT OUR ON SITE HANDLING OF CHLORINE DOWN TO BELOW 2500LBS AS OF AUGUST 1999. THE WORST-CASE RELEASE SCENARIO AND THE ALTERNATIVE RELEASE SCENARIO WORST-CASE SCENARIO- FAILURE OF A ONE TON CYLINDER OF CHLORINE WOULD RELEASE 2000LBS OF CHLORINE IN TEN MINUTES. THE ENTIRE CONTENTS ARE RELEASED AS VAPOR. THE END POINT DISTANCE WOULD BE 6.70 MILES. INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM THE CHLORINE INSTITUTE PAMPHLET 74. ALTERNATIVE RELEASE SCENARIO EXCESS FLOW DEVICE FAILURE WOULD RELEASE 762LBS. OF CHLORINE VAPOR IN A TEN MINUTE PERIOD. THE END POINT DISTANCE WOULD 1.70 MILES. THIS INFORMATION COMES FROM THE CHLORINE INSTITUTE PAMPHLET 74. THE GENERAL AC CIDENTAL RELEASE PREVENTION PROGRAM AND THE SPECIFIC PREVENTION STEPS THIS FACILITY COMPLIES WITH ALL APPLICABLE STATE CODES AND REGULATIONS. WE HAVE ALSO PURCHASED CHLORINE CYLINDER REPAIR KITS AND A NEW CHLORINE LEAK DETECTION ALARM. OUR NEWEST PURCHASE IS TWO NEW CHLORINATORS THAT WORK OFF OF VACUUM WITCH REDUCES THE RISK OF ACCIDENTAL RELEASE CAUSED BY HUMAN ERROR OR LINE FAILURE. THE FIVE YEAR ACCIDENT HISTORY THIS FACILITY DID NOT HAVE ANY REPORTABLE ACCIDENTS IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS. THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM THIS FACILITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM IS BASED ON THE CHLORINE INSTITUTE'S PAMPHLET 64 EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANS FOR CHOLRINE FACILITIES AND OUR SARA TITLE 3. WE HAVE MEET WITH LOCAL EMERGENCY PLANNING COMMITTEE, STATE EMERGENCY PLANNING COMMITTEE AND LOCAL FIRE DEPT. OUR SARA TITLE 3 HAS JUST BEEN REVEIWED AND APPROVED FOR 1999. PLANNED CHANGES TO IMPROVE SAFETY THIS FACILITY WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE SCHEDULED SAFETY MEETINGS, NOT ONLY IN HOUSE BUT MEETINGS WITH OUR CHLORINE VENDERS. WE ALSO WILL CONTINUE TO PRACTISE ESCAPE ROOTS FOR EVACUATION PURPOSES AND TABLE TOP DI SATERS WITH OUR LEPC. THIS FACILITY AS OF AUGUST 1999 WILL NO LONGER HAVE 2500 LBS OR MORE OF CHLORINE ON SITE. |