Transcript Indiana Spill Rule

IDEM Emergency Response
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www.IN.gov/idem/er
Agenda
• Indiana Spill Rule
• Remedial Response Referrals
• Spill Assessment
• Available for Assistance
Indiana Spill Rule
Highpoints
Applicability
Definitions
Reportable Facility Spills
Reportable Transportation Spills
Responsibilities of Spiller
Applicability
Rule applies to
• Reporting
• Containment
• Response
For Spills of
• Hazardous Substances
• Extremely Hazardous
Substances
• Petroleum
• Objectionable
Substances
Definition of
‘Objectionable Substance’
• Means substances that are of a quantity, and
a type, and are present for a duration and in
a location so as to damage waters of the
state.
Definition of ‘Damage’
• Means the actual or imminent alteration of
the waters of the state so as to render the
waters harmful, detrimental, or injurious.
Definition of ‘Waters’
• Means the accumulations of water, surface
and underground, natural and artificial,
public and private.
• The term does not include any private pond
or any off-stream pond, reservoir, or facility
built for reduction or control of pollution or
cooling of water unless the discharge
threatens to cause water pollution.
Definition of ‘Spill’
• Means any unexpected, unintended,
abnormal, or unapproved dumping, leakage,
drainage, seepage, discharge or other loss of
petroleum, HS, EHS, or objectionable
substance.
Definition of ‘Contain’
• Means to take such immediate action as
necessary to dam, block, restrain, or
otherwise act to most effectively prevent a
spill from entering waters of the state or
minimize damage to waters of the state
from a spill.
Definition of ‘Spill Response’
• Means the spill is
– 1. contained, and
– 2. free material is removed or neutralized.
Reportable Spills - Facility
• Damage water + death, injury, illness to
humans, animals
• Soil spills + Wellhead Protection Areas
• Damage water + private wells, special
waters
• Most other applications*
• No spill response was performed
Reportable Spills - Facility
*Most other applications
• Surface Water RQs
• Offsite Soil RQs
• Onsite Soil RQs
Reportable Spills Transportation
• Damage waters + death, injury, illness to
humans, animals
• Spills that damage surface waters
• Soil RQs
• No spill response was performed
Responsibilities of Spiller
• Any person who operates, controls, or
maintains any mode of transportation or
facility from which a spill occurs shall,
upon discovery of a reportable spill to the
soil or surface waters of the state, do the
following:
Responsibilities, cont’d
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CONTAIN from waters of state
Spill Response - remove spilled materials
REPORT to IDEM Spill Line
Submit written report (when asked)
NOTIFY offsite land owners, water users
Remedial Response Referrals
Spill Hand-offs to
IDEM Remediation Branch
Emergency is over,
Refer when response actions:
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Threatens existing structures
Destroys sensitive environment, not save it
Threatens public and responder safety
Has no technological solution
Has no short term solution
As IDEM sees appropriate
Spill case flow
24 hr Spill Line
Emergency Response Section
abate emergency, return to
'pre-incident conditions', or refers to:
Remediation Branch
State Cleanup
'Remedial Response'
RISC
Voluntary Remediation Program
RISC
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
RISC
RCRA Corrective Action
Spill Impact Assessment
Spills to Water
• Water dynamics
– Flowing waters vs. standing
– Observations: discoloration, chemical odors, etc
• Spill dynamics - Discharging vs. contained
• Condition of Flora, Fauna
– Live
– Stressed, damaged
– Dead
Spills to Soil
• Native sandy/gravelly soils
• Back-filled areas, loose sandy/gravelly
• Underground structures
– water wells
– utilities, pipelines
– septic systems, dry-wells, etc.
• Call before you dig: 800-382-5544
Spills into Sewers
• Storm sewers, field tiles
– Storm water grates, manhole lids, tile risers
– Catchment basins - recovery point
– Surface discharge points - recovery point
• Sanitary sewers
– Notify Waste Water Treatment Plant ASAP
• Combined sewers
– All the above
Safety First
Do not endanger yourself during spill
investigation activities!
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No tasting spills to identify unknowns.
No inhaling gases to identify unknowns.
No touching materials to identify unknowns.
No going into hazardous atmospheres.
No reservations calling for assistance.
No forgetting safety comes first.
IDEM ER
Available for Assistance
Call us for:
• Reportable spills
• Abandoned drums
• Wastewater
emergencies
• Fire water runoff
emergencies
• Technical assistance
• For all environmental
emergencies
Fifty-eight pales of paint waste, partially hidden under duck weed.
Greencastle - Full chlorine tankers led to evacuation of 3,500 residents
Ohio River - 25K gallons of fuel spilled when barge ran aground.
Logansport - After BLEVE of Toluene Di-Isocyanate rail car.
Crawfordsville - Cafeteria condiments in Big Walnut Creek
Laurel, IN
On banks of
Whitewater River
Over application of animal waste and spills to surface water
Elkhart - Rail yard diesel fuel spill
Surface water petroleum containment
Surface water petroleum recovery
Evansville - Severe surface water petroleum impact
Madison County - partial tomato waste water treatment failure
Mayonnaise in surface water
Turf grass herbicide in surface water
Waste water
lagoon effluent
Hog manure
Crude oil in surface pond
IDEM Emergency Response
888-233-7745
www.IN.gov/idem/er