The overflow from a pool of 'Slop' Esmeraldas Refinery which stores residual oil was the cause of the spill that chemical by two river drainage channels Teaone between 06:00 and 11:00 yesterday.
preliminary report obtained at the Provincial Directorate of Ministry of Environment who also knew that the mishap was caused by heavy rain Saturday night and lasted until noon yesterday.
The rain made the skill level of the pool of 'Slop'
exceed their limit, so that oil went to the river Teaone an extension of oil film approximately three miles.
For this fact a thousand families were exposed coastal River Teaone an eminent explosion were alerted so they do not burn garbage near the tributary.
A law firm began contacting the City of Esmeraldas to sue again on the Esmeraldas refinery oil spill to the river Teaone happened yesterday, as announced by the mayor, Ernesto Estupiñán Quintero.
tasks hydrocarbon collection began just after 11:00 by technicians of the refinery that absorbing barriers located at the confluence of Teaone and Esmeraldas River, at the height of the Fosters 1.
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Press Release
A contingency of less consideration, occurred in the outer area of \u200b\u200bthe Esmeraldas refinery, following the sudden and heavy rain occurred in the early hours of Sunday February 13, 2011, in the province of Esmeraldas.
The emergency control group maintained the discharge of treated wastewater and storm water under strictly controlled within the industrial plant so that there was no leakage of oil by this point.
During the visual inspection undertaken Teaone River in the early hours of this morning, the effluent was in normal conditions, however, about 0900 staff in the area of \u200b\u200bPrevention and Contingency Refinery, showed the presence saturated hydrocarbon traces in small palisades swept away by the floodwaters of the River. Immediately
the inspections of the banks of Teaone, identifying a flow of rainwater from the area outside the refinery in an area known as Boys Town, where natural drainage was contaminated with a thin film of oil.
immediately, placed barriers to retention and absorbing barriers in this channel, which was controlled completely out of the oil film and proceeded to the recovery tank cars.
Simultaneously, excavated and a retaining wall within the outer area, this would completely control the spread, so today at 12:30 Sunday, the river was at normal conditions, which was ratified by EP personnel PETROECUADOR after inspection at the mouth of the Esmeraldas River.
Before the event, EP PETROECUADOR Teaone ensures that the river suffered no involvement, for the immediate deployment of the Contingency Plan, which was verified by technical staff of the Ministry of Environment.
PETROECUADOR EP officials report that the production units of the Esmeraldas refinery are operating normally.
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