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Thursday, July 24, 2008
EPA is working closely with the Town of Montville, Connecticut and the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (CTDEP) to supervise the removal of electrical transformers containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from the Wisniewski Superfund Site on Route 163 in Montville. The trustees of the Site are undertaking the removal under EPA oversight and have approved to remove all eight transformers and two associated capacitors from the property to a licensed off-site disposal facility.
EPA investigations of the property in November 2007 and January 2008 concluded that some of the transformers contained oil contaminated with PCBs. Testing of the soils in the surrounding area of the transformers did not reveal any PCB contamination above CTDEP’s most stringent residential cleanup criteria. Temporary spill containment will be constructed prior to the removal as a protective measure.
The cleanup is expected to begin within the next several weeks and be finished by the end of the summer. As part of the removal, some additional testing of the transformers will be performed, followed by the removal of the equipment to an EPA-approved treatment and removal facility.
For More Details Refer this URL: http://yosemite.epa.gov
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Monday, July 14, 2008
More than 3,000 American Electric Power customers in and immediately around Ironton were without power as of press time Saturday, thanks to an equipment failure that affected much of the city's eastern end.
"We had a transformer that unsuccessful," AEP spokesman Takeysha Cheney said. "Unfortunately the problem was more concerned than we originally thought."
Cheney said it may be as late as 6 p.m. Sunday before service is totally restored.
Electricity examine failed just after 11 a.m. Saturday, just as the heat and humidity began to kick into high gear.
Cheney said some portable units are being brought in to service nursing homes in the affected area.
For More Details Refer : http://www.irontontribune.com
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Friday, July 4, 2008
Even $1.3 million toys sometimes want to be returned. That was the case this week with Nixa's latest transformer, a 70 MVA behemoth. Nixa city officials were told by Southwest Power Administration workers that plates inside the transformer had shifted during transportation, either on the boat or the truck, and they did not feel easy refreshing it.
SPA workers got the crane back out and overloaded the 68.5 ton transformer on the tractor trailer again and headed back to Houston enroute to Brazil, its country of origin. In the meantime, New Madrid, Missouri's 70 MVA transformer, which was shipped alongside Nixa's new unit, is now in place in Nixa.The city of a little more than 3,000 near the Illinois border will receive the repaired MVA sent back for repairs, SPA officials said.
Brian Denney, electric superintendent for the city of Nixa, said the new transformer is energizing at this very moment, with potential to carry its load early next week.
“This transformer improve is a project recognized in the 2004 system study because of the load growth on the electric system," Colvin said. "The mutual project is approximately $1.3 million, with approximately $900,000 of that coming from the city of Nixa. This transformer replaces a 1960s model 25 MVA that has surpassed its lifetime and is too small to carry Nixa's electric load."
For More Details Refer This URL: http://www.nixaxpress.com
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