CitizenVectron Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 Tribar employee overrode alarm 460 times before Huron River spill WWW.MLIVE.COM New details about Huron River chromium spill emerge from Michigan EGLE “egregious” violation notice issued to Tribar Technologies. Quote An employee at Tribar Technologies in Wixom overrode the company's waste treatment alarms 460 times in the span of nearly three hours on the night which state regulators believe a toxic chemical release to the Huron River initially began last weekend. Quote According to the EGLE notice, that's when a 14,923-gallon rinse waste tank holding about 10,000 gallons of "acid etch material" with about five percent total chromium was emptied into the Wixom wastewater system as a contamination slug, which overwhelmed the sewage plant. Don't worry though, because this toxic and carcinogenic spill won't reach Ann Arbor for...two weeks. Quote There has been widespread concern over the potential for contaminants to reach the city of Ann Arbor's water intake downstream at Barton Pond, although computer modeling has shown that the slow-flowing river wouldn't likely bring any chromium to the city for several weeks. Though it might sound like it's just the one employee's fault, the company culture likely has something to do with it since the same company contaminated water in the past with PFAS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 To be fair maybe the alarm was annoying and he wanted to take a nap? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 Me, every morning before my kids wake up and I have an alarm set 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 This is pure Michigan. When my dad was a kid, the Flint river was bright fluorescent green from all the paint that GM was dumping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 I've taken the batteries out of half my smoke detectors because the fucking things always beep at like 2am. Probably not smart but that shit is annoying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 8 minutes ago, Dodger said: I've taken the batteries out of half my smoke detectors because the fucking things always beep at like 2am. Probably not smart but that shit is annoying That means replace the battery not remove the battery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 It still amazes me that this doesn't result in an immediate raid by state or federal agents, but I guess when you're a big company nothing's ever a big deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Pickle Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Remarkableriots said: To be fair maybe the alarm was annoying and he wanted to take a nap? Where’s the homer gif of him pouring water over the electronics 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Remarkableriots said: To be fair maybe the alarm was annoying and he wanted to take a nap? So it was Homer Simpson? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyPiranha Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Nearly three hours means he was overriding the alarm basically every twenty seconds. Fucking hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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