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PEPSI COLA GENERAL BOTTLERS, INC.

Administrative - Formal · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 31722

$12K
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Compliance action

Case

Case Number
05-1999-0399
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
Multimedia
Y
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

FACILITY FAILED TO IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE NRC, SERC, AND LEPC OF A RELEASE OF 38,030 POUNDS OF FERRIC SULFATE. ON SEPTEMBER 23, 1998 THERE WAS A RELEASE OF 38,050 POUNDS OF FERRIC SULFATE AT THIS FACILITY. THE RELEASE OCCURRED WHEN A FORK LIFT DRIVER ACCIDENTALLY HIT THE SUPPLY LINE TO A FERRIC SULFATE TANK, CAUSING THE RELEASE ON FERRIC SULFATE ONTO ASPHALT, THAT THEN MIGRATED TO A STORM SEWER AND INTO A TRIBUTARY OF MILL CREEK. PEPSI DID NOT REPORT THE RELEASE TO THE NRC, SERC, AND LEPC UNTIL APPROXIMATELY 50 HOURS AFTER THE RELEASE.

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