stripercrazy
12-04-2009, 07:40 AM
Great place to work, you either get to smell fecal matter, or gas!:laugh:
Illegally discharged substance likely cause of Port Richmond plant evacuation
By Staten Island Advance (http://connect.silive.com/user/sisiadvance/index.html)
December 01, 2009, 1:02PM
http://media.silive.com/northshore/photo/12-01-depjpg-ac539d7e1f01539e_large.jpgAdvance photo/Andrew LisantiEmergency officials evacuate the sewage treatment facility at Clove Road and Richmond Terrace, Port Richmond.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Approximately 140 employees were evacuated from a wastewater treatment plant in Port Richmond (http://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2009/12/port_richmond_sewage_treatment.html) this morning after an “illegally discharged substance” — likely a petroleum product dumped into the sewer system — entered the facility, a spokeswoman for the city Department of Environmental Protection said.
Two electricians were treated by EMS and taken to Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton, according to Mercedes Padilla, a DEP spokeswoman. The source of the discharge remains under investigation.
Workers said the fumes smelled like gasoline.
One worker, Robert Meyer of N.J., said he saw one of the electricians removed by stretcher after collapsing.
“We were working, and he was just overcome with fumes," he said.
Meyer said the plant typically smells like fecal matter, “but today it smelled like gas, really bad.“
http://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2009/12/illegally_discharged_substance.html
Illegally discharged substance likely cause of Port Richmond plant evacuation
By Staten Island Advance (http://connect.silive.com/user/sisiadvance/index.html)
December 01, 2009, 1:02PM
http://media.silive.com/northshore/photo/12-01-depjpg-ac539d7e1f01539e_large.jpgAdvance photo/Andrew LisantiEmergency officials evacuate the sewage treatment facility at Clove Road and Richmond Terrace, Port Richmond.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Approximately 140 employees were evacuated from a wastewater treatment plant in Port Richmond (http://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2009/12/port_richmond_sewage_treatment.html) this morning after an “illegally discharged substance” — likely a petroleum product dumped into the sewer system — entered the facility, a spokeswoman for the city Department of Environmental Protection said.
Two electricians were treated by EMS and taken to Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton, according to Mercedes Padilla, a DEP spokeswoman. The source of the discharge remains under investigation.
Workers said the fumes smelled like gasoline.
One worker, Robert Meyer of N.J., said he saw one of the electricians removed by stretcher after collapsing.
“We were working, and he was just overcome with fumes," he said.
Meyer said the plant typically smells like fecal matter, “but today it smelled like gas, really bad.“
http://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2009/12/illegally_discharged_substance.html