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ESSENTIAL POWER MASSACHUSETTS LLC

Administrative - Formal · FY2014 · — · — · 3400253485

Penalty
Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
01-2014-2512
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Multimedia
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

On March 4, 2014, the power station's rail-racer (which is a kind of tunnel) failed. causing soils to be washed away creating a sink hole under the facility's transformer which contained 1175 gallons of oil. The transformer fell into the sinkhole. As a result, an estimated 125 gallons of transformer mineral oil spilled into the Deerfield River. The only other spill reported by this facility was a June 1, 2010 release of five gallons of hydraulic oil into the Deerfield River due to improper valve alignment, prior to restoring power to the station after an outage.

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EPA ECHO
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