Incident 1 - The Brewery
An incident occurred at a prominent brewery when a tank containing acetic acid began to vent steam. The Fire & Rescue Service evacuated the brewery and created a 300m exclusion zone.
The brewery had already contacted our Emergency Response Call Centre, which despatched an experienced incident co-ordinator and crew with dedicated equipment to deal with the incident.
On their arrival, the Commanding Officer for the Fire and Rescue Service stood his team down and handed over full incident control to our team. After discussions with a Veolia chemist, the crew set to work and restored the site back to working order within 2 hours.
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Incident 2 - The Motorway
A tanker containing crude glycerol was involved in a motorway collision resulting in an unknown amount spilling over two lanes and more still leaking from the punctured tank. The Police closed the motorway causing severe disruption.
The Emergency Response Call Centre was contacted and an experienced co-ordinator and crew were despatched, who evaluated the site and requested additional on-call personnel including a chemist and a traffic controller.
Working under the instruction of the chemist the crew undertook a clean up of the area, whilst the traffic controller arranged for further tankers with the correct specification to uplift the remaining glycerol from the stricken tanker. A final decontamination of the area was completed and the motorway was re-opened within 3 hours of arrival.
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Incident 3 - The Watercourse
A manufacturing company accidentally released a large but unknown volume of engine oil into a storm drain. Major environmental pollution became a real threat when the oil overflowed into a nearby watercourse. On realising the scale of the incident the company immediately notified Veolia Environmental Services Emergency Response and an incident co-ordinator was sent to the scene to assess the situation.
Following an evaluation at the site a Veolia Environmental Services chemist and a transport controller were notified. Under instruction from the Environment Agency (EA), the chemist carried out sampling whilst the specialist decontamination crew commenced a clean up of the area and began skimming the watercourse.
A total of 25 tonnes of engine oil were removed from the site whilst the majority of water was decanted back into the watercourse under the guidance of the EA.
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