Building Secondary Containment

Do you store or transport more than 1300, 20 gallons of oil or fuel? Do you service or operate heavy machinery or trucks, repair shops or manufacturing facilities, oil pipelines or bulk storage facilities, watercraft or marinas? Do your facilities, utilize oil filled transformer bags or hydraulic powered elevators? Do you provide oil and gas well drilling or services environmental emergency response waste oil disposal? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you are at risk for a hydrocarbon spill EPA regulation: 40 CFR. One 12.1 requires a spill prevention, control and countermeasure plan to address any unwanted spill or release of hydrocarbons, which could pollute the soil, groundwater and or surface waters within the United States. Traditional methods of compliance are expensive, cumbersome and, in some cases, ineffective currently for prevention, expensive, concrete or steel secondary containment structures are utilized for emergency response, messy absorbent, pads and containment. Booms are common, in addition to time and labor-intensive vacuum trucks to replace expensive and outdated methods of spill prevention and response. Cia agent solutions introduces an exciting new technology called CIA agent. Your cheap insurance agent CIA agent is a non-toxic non, corrosive non-carcinogenic and non-hazardous blend of food-grade polymers that work on the molecular level and an encapsulation process. This demonstration simulates a diesel fuel spill on water. It works equally well with any hydrocarbon from the low end, gasoline's and solvents to the high end crude oils. When CIA agent is applied to the spill in any of a variety of delivery systems, it immediately transforms the hydrocarbons into a solid rubber like mass. This product comes in many delivery systems and can be used in both prevention and response applications. It'S simple: it works when custom tailored to address your site specific needs. It is less expensive, less labor-intensive and more effective than traditional technologies. In response applications. Cia agent takes the urgency out of emergency. It can be applied to a hydrocarbon spill to transform it into a recyclable land. Fillable rubber, like substance this product, will work in slow-moving or free standing, water or on land. Cia agent will not only remove the oil, but the rainbow effects of the lighter hydrocarbons known as the sheen, with traditional methods such as polly, pads or booms. You have to clean up your clean up. The byproduct of the cleanup is by definition, hazardous waste and must be transported to an approved hazardous waste, landfill or incinerator. This is expensive and time-consuming in comparison when CIA agent is applied to a spill, the resultant product can be treated as a recyclable or, as just plain trash. Cia agent passes the toxic characteristic bleaching properties test, also known as t clip, as well as the paint filter test two tests which determine if a material is acceptable for a landfill. Do these look familiar to you? These are examples of typical oil containment structures on various job sites. These structures were expensive to build, require lifelong attention and offer only a limited solution to the problems. As you can see, they entrap water that can become polluted with oil they serve as catch shawls. For miscellaneous items and trash they contain spills only in the immediate vicinity. They provide no protection against spills when loading or unloading the product and no protection against vandalism, a below ground containment structure, utilizing cih and barrier booms combined with an impervious ground liner and a gravel bed, offers a more efficient, less expensive solution. This system can be used for new facilities or can be retrofitted to existing structures to provide a tertiary containment as well as protection against spills and vandalism. A recent I EEE oil spill survey reported that forty-two percent of electrical equipment oil spills are caused by equipment failure. Thirty-Seven percent are caused by vandalism, eleven percent caused by accidents and negligence and ten percent caused by leagues, in new construction or for unprotected tanks. A solution can be designed to provide secondary containment for less cost, with fewer man hours than expensive steel or concrete. Most solutions can be installed within one day for a typical installation of secondary containment, with CIA agent barrier boom rated for 200 years. We excavate an area for the containment structure and associated drainage areas. A layer of impervious barrier is installed on the pit floor, if needed. A layer of bentonite is used to form a watertight seal between the pit liner and the CIA agent barrier balm. The barrier boom is staked into place. Gravel is years to fill the interior containment area and the exterior drainage area. Tanks are placed within the gravel bed area when it rains water falling on the gravel bed flows, laterally, passing through the booms and away through the drainage areas. Minor spills are flushed by the rainwater from the gravel bed and are trapped and rendered harmless by the barrier bone. A large release, such as a failure of the storage tank, will be trapped as the barrier boom turns into an impervious damn. The remaining hydrocarbons are retained within the void space of the gravel bed. Here'S an example of a well installed system with conventional secondary containment, located within 150 feet of a stream. This system is lacking protection for a spill and the loading or offloading of product to and from the tanks. It is also vulnerable to spills caused by vandalism, a mechanical failure in the pumps or a rupture in the fill hose. If any of these occur, traditional methods of response would be costly, time-consuming, harmful to the environment and, subject to civil penalties. Here is a solution with a CIA agent tertiary containment structure in less than one day and at a one-time cost of less than 7,500 dollars. All these risks are minimized. The site is now in full compliance with a simplified spcc plan, complete with peace of mind. Isn'T that cheap insurance? Whatever challenges you face in regard to the storage, transport or containment of hydrocarbons, CIA agent solutions can provide efficient and cost-effective solutions for prevention applications. We can design and install a CIA agent solution, customized for your site, specific needs and apply for or amend your SBCC plan. Bringing you into full compliance with all APA regulations for response applications. We can equip your people to respond quickly and efficiently to emergencies for more information about this exciting new technology contact, CIA agent solutions,