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Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 7:48:53 AM
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Table of Contents (9 articles)
CHEMICAL MISHAP KILLED HUNDREDS OF FISH AS TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM
Tags: us_TX, industrial, release, environmental, other_chemical, drugs
FIRE, HAZMAT CREWS KEEP LARGE GASOLINE SPILL OUT OF LAKE ARLINGTON
Tags: us_IL, public, release, environmental, gasoline
GEORGIA TECH LAB EXPLOSION
Tags: us_GA, laboratory, explosion, response, unknown_chemical
BLOWN HEATER CAUSES EXPLOSION AT BAYTOWN PLANT
Tags: us_TX, industrial, fire, injury, ethylene_glycol
HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE WING CLEARED AFTER CHEMISTRY LAB SPILL
Tags: us_NJ, laboratory, release, response, other_chemical
LODI CHEMICAL CLEANUP AT SITE OF FATAL BLAST NEARS END
Tags: us_NJ, industrial, follow-up, environmental
COUNTY AUTHORIZES MORE CLEAN UP AT SITE OF EXPLOSION
Tags: us_CA, industrial, follow-up, environmental, peroxide
CHEMICAL BOMBS FOUND IN LYNDEBOROUGH DRIVEWAY
Tags: us_NH, public, discovery, response, bomb
NUCLEAR WASTE DRUMS STABLE AFTER FEAR OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS
Tags: us_NM, industrial, follow-up, response, radiation, waste
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CHEMICAL MISHAP KILLED HUNDREDS OF FISH AS TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM
Tags: us_TX, industrial, release, environmental, other_chemical, drugs
(Reuters) - Hundreds of fish were killed at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi after an industrial chemical was mistakenly introduced to a huge tank instead of a drug commonly used to kill worms and lice in fish, the aquarium said on Tuesday.
Some rare species were among 389 fish killed on April 14, said officials at the tourist attraction and conservator of sea life from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. Only two fish survived.
About 13 percent of its entire collection was killed, including a sand tiger shark and hundreds of fish in its 125,000-gallon (473,000-liter) Islands of Steel and 40,000-gallon (151,000-liter) Flower Gardens exhibits, the aquarium said.
Aquarium President Tom Schmid said fish began dying after employees introduced what they thought was a low dose of a drug used to kill parasites in fish.
Tests showed that a mislabeled container held an industrial chemical commonly used in film processing and in paint and fuel that is a poison and carcinogen, Schmid said.
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FIRE, HAZMAT CREWS KEEP LARGE GASOLINE SPILL OUT OF LAKE ARLINGTON
Tags: us_IL, public, release, environmental, gasoline
Gasoline from a large spill at an Arlington Heights gas station early this morning leaked into nearby McDonald Creek, but firefighters and hazardous materials crews managed to prevent it from spreading downstream to Lake Arlington, an official said.
Authorities blamed the spill on a pump left running overnight at the Citgo gas station at Palatine Road and Windsor Drive, on the village's northeast side.
A passer-by spotted the leak shortly before 5:45 a.m., Arlington Heights Deputy Fire Chief Pete Ahlman said.
"He hit the emergency shut off to stop the leak, which was very helpful," Ahlman said.
It was not known how long the pump had been running, but preliminary estimates indicate as much as 80 gallons of gasoline poured out of the pump before it was turned off, Ahlman said. The cause of the spill remains undetermined, and Arlington Heights police had not been called to investigate whether something criminal occurred.
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GEORGIA TECH LAB EXPLOSION
Tags: us_GA, laboratory, explosion, response, unknown_chemical
ATLANTA (AP) ‰?? A laboratory explosion at Georgia Tech caused authorities to evacuate a building at the Atlanta campus.
WSB-TV reports a small explosion occurred one of the labs in the building Tuesday afternoon. Georgia Tech officials say no one was injured.
Atlanta firefighters emptied the lab building for a short time but it soon reopened as the fire department continued to assess the blast. It was not immediately known what caused the explosion.
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BLOWN HEATER CAUSES EXPLOSION AT BAYTOWN PLANT
Tags: us_TX, industrial, fire, injury, ethylene_glycol
BAYTOWN, Texas - Firefighters say a blown heater caused a chemical fire at the Southern Metal Processing plant Monday night.
According to the Baytown Fire Department, crews have been out at the scene all night spraying down the flames with water and a special dry suppressant. However, the chemical that spilled, diethylene glycol, self-ignites like trick birthday candles.
Diethylene glycol is a cleaning agent used on filters in the chemical industry.
Investigators said two workers were inside the plant when the fire started but are OK. No other injuries or evacuations were reported.
Most of the damage seemed to be limited to a section of pipes at that plant.
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HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE WING CLEARED AFTER CHEMISTRY LAB SPILL
Tags: us_NJ, laboratory, release, response, other_chemical
A student accidentally dropped a beaker of chemicals in a chemistry lab classroom at Manchester High School on Monday afternoon, resulting in the clearing of the science wing while hazmat crews cleaned up the spill, police said.
School administrators called police about 1:20 p.m. to report the spill, which occurred when the student dropped the 500-milliliter beaker on the floor and it shattered, Capt. Todd Malland of the Manchester Police Department said.
The beaker contained manganese (11) sulfate solution, silver nitrate solution 0.2l, lead nitrate solution, nickel sulfate, and cobalt chloride aqueous solution, 2.5 percent, school officials told police.
Police evacuated the science wing while members of the Berkeley Township HazMat Response Team decontaminated the scene, Malland said.
The teacher and five students who were in the room at the time did not report any injuries at the time of the spill, he said.
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LODI CHEMICAL CLEANUP AT SITE OF FATAL BLAST NEARS END
Tags: us_NJ, industrial, follow-up, environmental
Twenty years after the deadly explosion at the Napp Technologies chemical plant in Lodi, the site is in the last stages of a large environmental cleanup that local officials hope will finally rid the borough of an eyesore.
A proposal to begin construction on a gym and a pharmacy at the site this year would complete the borough‰??s effort to turn what was an industrial hub along Main Street into a long retail strip ‰?? one they hope will help the community move on from the tragedy.
Despite assurances by environmental regulators shortly after the explosion that the property would be a priority to remediate and redevelop, it languished for years, like scores of polluted sites across New Jersey. Bureaucratic inertia, feuds among property owners and proposed cleanup plans by Napp‰??s environmental consultants that the state Department of Environmental Protection deemed to be too lax all contributed to the slow progress, according to a review of government documents.
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COUNTY AUTHORIZES MORE CLEAN UP AT SITE OF EXPLOSION
Tags: us_CA, industrial, follow-up, environmental, peroxide
Ventura County officials said this week that they‰??ve issued an emergency use authorization to do more clean up at a site near Santa Paula where a truck exploded in November.
About 1,000 gallons of liquid organic peroxide spilled and burned after the rear of a vacuum truck exploded along the 800 block of Mission Rock Road, injuring two people.
Forty-four other people were treated at area hospitals for possible exposure to the substance.
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CHEMICAL BOMBS FOUND IN LYNDEBOROUGH DRIVEWAY
Tags: us_NH, public, discovery, response, bomb
LYNDEBOROUGH ‰?? Four chemical bombs were defused by the New Hampshire State Police Bomb Squad on Sunday afternoon.
The bombs were found in a driveway at 3 Purgatory Falls Road and reported to police as suspicious items at 3:40 p.m. April 19.
The 1- and 2-liter soda bottles contained a dark liquid. The bomb squad determined they were chemical bombs.
‰??At first, we thought it was meth amphetamine, but that is white-colored and this was a dark color,‰?? said Lyndeborough Police Chief Rainsford Deware.
Lyndeborough Police Officer Eric MacDuff responded and after inspecting the suspicious bottles, he contacted the New Hampshire State Police Bomb Squad, which responded immediately.
According to Deware, the bomb squad determined the bottles contained aluminum foil, batteries and toilet bowl cleaner of some sort.
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NUCLEAR WASTE DRUMS STABLE AFTER FEAR OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS
Tags: us_NM, industrial, follow-up, response, radiation, waste
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico -- Dozens of drums of radioactive waste at one of the nation's premier weapons laboratories are stable after some showed signs of chemical reactions over the past year, according to federal officials.
The drums are being closely monitored after a chemical reaction inside a container with similar contents caused a breach in February 2014, resulting in a radiation release and the indefinite closure of the country's only underground nuclear waste dump.
Investigators with the U.S. Energy Department confirmed during a recent town hall that there have been chemical reactions in the containers stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory, but the gases building up inside have decreased over the past several months.
"That would suggest that the reaction, if it is occurring, is slowing down. It's reached a steady state, and it has stopped," said John Marra, chief research officer for Savannah River National Laboratory and one of the investigators who reviewed the cause of the 2014 radiation leak at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southern New Mexico.
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