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COLONIAL PIPELINE CO

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Incident Information

Report Date—
OperatorCOLONIAL PIPELINE CO
Commodity—
Pipeline Typehazardous_liquid

Location

State
Coordinates30.90927, -90.87166

Cause

CauseINCORRECT OPERATION
Subcause—

Casualties

Fatalities0
Injuries0

Costs

Property Damage—
Lost Commodity—
Public/Private Damage—
Emergency Response—
Environmental Remediation—
Other Costs—

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Incident Narrative

ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1ST, 2012, AT 10:04 (ALL TIMES NOTED ARE CST) THE CENTRAL CONTROL CENTER RECEIVED A HIGH SUMP ALARM FROM FELIXVILLE STATION LINE 2. THE CONTROLLER CALLED THE BATON ROUGE A OPERATOR TO INFORM HIM OF THE ALARM AND TO REQUEST PERSONNEL BE DISPATCHED TO INVESTIGATE. THE A OPERATOR BEGAN NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES AND DISPATCHED A TECHNICIAN TO INVESTIGATE. AT 1054, THE STATION SUMP MAX FILL ALARM WAS RECEIVED ALONG WITH THE STATION LOCKOUT. AT 11:19, THE CONTRACT SUPERVISOR WORKING WITH A PAINT CREW IN THE STATION NOTICED PRODUCT FLOWING OUT OF THE SUMP AND ONTO THE GROUND AND A CALL WAS PLACED TO THE EMERGENCY LINE ALERTING THE CONTROL CENTER OPERATIONS MANAGER (CCOM) IN ALPHARETTA OF THE RELEASE. AT THE SAME TIME, THE CREW INSPECTOR CALLED THE CONTROLLER AND ADVISED OF THE ISSUE. THE CCOM CALLED THE OPERATIONS MANAGER AT 11:20 TO ADVISE HIM OF THE PRODUCT RELEASE. LOCAL COLONIAL PERSONNEL ARRIVED ON THE SCENE AT 11:50 (TWO TECHNICIANS RESPONDED AND ARRIVED AT THE SAME TIME). ONE OF THE TECHNICIANS RESPONDED TO THE PRODUCT THAT WAS ON THE GROUND BY STARTING CONTAINMENT EFFORTS AND THE OTHER QUICKLY IDENTIFIED THE SOURCE OF PRODUCT FLOW AND STOPPED IT. THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS WAS NOTIFIED OF THE RELEASE AND IMMEDIATE IMPACTS AT 12:54. LATER, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE PAINTING CREW HAD INADVERTENTLY BUMPED A DRAIN VALVE ON THE PRESSURE RELIEF SYSTEM WHICH STARTED FLOW INTO THE STATION SUMP. A CONTRACT RESPONSE CREW WAS CALLED AND ARRIVED ON SITE AT APPROXIMATELY 13:00 WITH A MINI EXCAVATOR AND VACUUM TRUCK TO HELP WITH THE CLEANUP EFFORT. THE PRODUCT RELEASE WAS CONTAINED ON THE FACILITY PROPERTY AND APPROXIMATELY 80 GALLONS OF FREE PRODUCT WAS RECOVERED. APPROXIMATELY 50 CUBIC YARDS OF CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS COLLECTED AND STORED ON SITE. AN ESTIMATED 111 GALLONS WAS RELEASED. STATE AGENCY INITIAL NOTIFICATION WAS MADE BY THE DISTRICT ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER VIA THE STATE ONLINE REPORTING TOOL AT 21:31 ON 12/1/12. FEDERAL TELEPHONIC NOTIFICATION WAS NOT REQUIRED AS THE REPORTING THRESHOLDS CONCERNING VOLUME, INJURY, DAMAGE, OR IMPACT WERE NOT REACHED.

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