[Pollution.notice] Pollution Notice

[Pollution.Notice]

As of December 30, 2016, an Administrative Law Judge invalidated a proposed pollution notification rule promulgated by the Department, which required owners of installations throughout the State of Florida report pollution events to the local government as well as a local media outlet to notify the general public of the event. Protecting Florida's pristine environment is our top priority and DEP will continue the public pollution notification process to ensure all Floridians and visitors are notified of pollution incidents. Moving forward the notification process from the Department may change, however it was imperative that the notification to the public continued seamlessly. The incident below is being forwarded to you because the event has occurred in your area. For more information or should you have any questions, please contact Lauren Engel at Lauren.Engel at dep.state.fl.us<mailto:Lauren.Engel at dep.state.fl.us>


     *   Installation Name: City of St. Pete - Northeast Wastewater Treatment Facility
     *   Contact Person for further information: Bill Logan - 727-893-7250
     *   Date and time of incident: 1/30/2017 around 10:23am
     *   Suspected source and cause of incident or discover: Northeast wastewater facility - annual cleaning of east chlorine contact chamber, shut down 1/10/2017; attempt to clean and do maintenance on aerator #4 on 1/13/17, lost waste pump during solids transfer. Placed aerator #4 back into service 1/16/17. Waste pump repaired.
     *   Type of pollution, including substance or contaminant names: Fecal Coliform detection levels exceeded percentage allowable for high level disinfection in wastewater over 30-day period.
     *   Amount of pollution:




DATE

FECAL

TRC



DATE

FECAL

TRC

1

1/16/2017

2

9.24mg/l

5

1/23/2017

2

6.64mg/l

2

1/17/2017

2

4.88mg/l

6

1/24/2017

2

7.38mg/l

3

1/18/2017

1

6.27mg/l

7

1/27/2017

1

5.96mg/l

4

1/21/2017

1

6.89mg/l

8

1/29/2017

1

8.16mg/l





     *   Medium affected by pollution: Process water and land.
     *   Potentially affected areas beyond installation property boundary: wastewater reuse line and injection well only (not drinking water)
     *   Identification of parties notified of incident and time notification occurred.  Michelle Holton, Department of Environmental Protection, Monday, January 30, 2017 at 10:23am.



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