Our environment is under threat from negligent and uneducated industry polluting our creeks, rivers, and waterways.
Negligent, uncaring and underprepared industry operators constantly turns a blind eye to chemical spills and contaminating runoffs from our factories and storage spaces into our stormwater systems. There the damage begins with the contaminated runoffs that cause havoc to our creeks, rivers, and waterways.
If you produce, use, or store any liquid substances in an industrial setting then you and your entire team must remain aware and consider the associated pollution risks of an accidental chemical spill and act to reduce those risks.
Industrial fire can also pose a serious environmental risk is not controlled.
Councils requires industrial landowners and business operators to protect water quality, by preventing pollution from stormwater before it reaches the stormwater drains, rivers or creeks.
Typical possible polluting events
The storage and handling of any liquid can lead to spills or leaks and the subsequent pollution of water and land. Some of the negative effects of this kind of pollution include (but are not limited to):
So the inevitable question is…. “how do we successfully reduce and control these risks?”
Here are simple and effective methods that will offer effective protection to our environment, personnel and businesses.
Training and Education
Produce a set of Standard operating procedures [ SOP’s]
Spill prevention.
Spill controll.
Isolation of runoff systems which include: -
The most important aspect of protection is therefore Isolation Systems that prevent large chemical spills and hazardous substances from entering the stormwater systems. The most effective system is the blocking of stormwater junction pits.
For this to be truly effective the stormwater drain needs to be blocked efficiently. The most reliable method of achieving total blocking of the pipes that flow into the Storm Ware system is the use of an inflatable plug that close of the outflow pipe in the event of a large spill that simple containment will not adress.
These products are permanently placed in the drain pit ready for deployment in the event of a hazardous fluid spill.
They are set against the wall of a stormwater drain in a protective sleeve and inflated in the event of an emergency.
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