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Sawyer Water Purification Plant (SWPP)

Parent: City of Chicago Department of Water Management · EPA RMP facility · Chicago, IL

Sawyer Water Purification Plant (SWPP) is regulated under the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (§112(r)) because it stores or uses hazardous chemicals above threshold quantities. It has 3 reportable chemical accident(s) on record, causing 0 death(s) and 3 injuries. RMP accidents include toxic/flammable releases, fires, explosions, and reactive incidents.

Accident history

DateTypeDeathsInjuriesEvacuatedCause
2012-08-07Gas release010Human error
2012-07-03Gas release010Human error
2005-08-29Gas release, Explosion010Equipment failure, Maintenance

About this data

The EPA Risk Management Program (Clean Air Act §112(r)) requires facilities with large quantities of hazardous chemicals to file Risk Management Plans, including a 5-year accident history. EPA keeps this statutorily-public data available only via FOIA / reading rooms; this page mirrors the FOIA'd dataset (institution-level only — no personal contact information).

Source: EPA RMP (FOIA mirror via the Data Liberation Project). License: CC0 1.0.