So I'm calmly sitting in my office, working for a change and not surfing PBB-leave and come back to find a message on my phone... Retrieve the message and it is a report from my assistant that one of the "Associates" has reported an on-going oil spill in the parking lot-beneath my truck. I guess I'll have to fix that damned power steering box this evening.

Yes, I am the environmental, health & safety manager here and the primary emergency responder for such things as oil spills.

Off to the maintenance shop to get some sorbents.

Peace,
Paul

LOL!

I'm with ya! I need a new set of oil cooler lines, and hate to give up on the auto rust proofing.

this is delicious irony, Paul . . . thanks for sharing :flipoff2: :flipoff2:

In 1993, the reportable quantity for ethylene glycol was only one pound. As it is a fairly dense liquid, it doesn't take much coolant to trigger a reportable event. As it was listed under the clean air act as an air pollutant, it applied to private individuals. Guess who had a freeze plug fail in front of of all places, the post office.

I had to call the Coast Guard to make a report form my own vehicle. As my job was Emergency Response for a utility, the Petty Officer who took the call, recognized my voice-THAT was embarrassing!

Peace,
Paul

What's the Coast Guard doing in Indiana??? :confused:

The Coast Guard has responsibility for accepting the reports of all reportable quantity spills. They man the National Response Center. There was a Memorandum of Understanding many years ago stating who had responsibility for what. Since USEPA could not accept responsibility for spills to coastal areas and the US Army has responsibility for wetlands... The Coast Guard got to answer the phones.

You would not believe the bets I have won over this topic!

1-800-424-8802 National Response Center.

BTW- there are more inland Coast Guard offices than coastal. There is a big one in Pittsburgh of all places.

Peace,
Paul

So Paul,
is this the number we call regarding the current puddle under you truck? 1-800-424-8802 How much ATF is considered reportable?
:flipoff2:

-Jeff

There is fortunately no federally determined Reportable Quantity for an oil spill to the ground. However, there is an RQ for spills to navigable waterways, the amount which causes a sheen to appear on the surface or coast lines-yes, this is a very tiny amount and has caused me no end of trouble in the past.

Indiana considers 25 gallons of an offending substance to be reportable if it is released to the soil... Good thing the system only holds three litres, eh?

I'm off to buy my third gear puller to try to get the arm off Mike's old box. Wish me luck.

Peace,
Paul