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14/06/2012
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IBAMA fined R$ 25 thousand to the railway company that operates the former Central Railway Station of Bauru / SP, for releasing ethyl alcohol in the soil, in violation of the requirements established in laws or normative acts. The accident occurred on the last day 31/05 in the railroad switching yard, when four tank cars loaded with approximately 240,000 liters of ethyl alcohol followed in a composition intended for the Paulínia / SP fell, causing the release of approximately six thousand liters of the product in the soil. The occurrence was reported to IBAMA for the direction of the train, as in the environmental licensing procedure.
The team of prevention and emergency response environmental IBAMA was in place and found that the accident occurred because of a failure to perform maneuvers that followed by the composition toward the city of Paulinia. The composition loaded with ethanol collided with another parked in the courtyard of the railroad, causing the registration of four tank cars and semi-tipping two others. Despite the tumbling, there was no damage to tank cars that could have caused the fuel leak. The outpouring of the product would have been caused by improper closure of the domes and valves located at the top of the tank cars.
In addition to representatives of emergency response teams of the company and IBAMA, were also present at the site of the Fire Department members and technicians of the Society of Environmental Sanitation Technology of São Paulo (Cetesb). At high risk of explosion and because it is a region with a large influx of people, the area was cordoned off for about four hours, until security was guaranteed by the Fire Department.
According to IBAMA technicians, besides the risk of explosion, the infiltration process of the cast product could lead to contamination of soil and subsoil, changing the environmental quality of the area impacted by the event. Given the facts found by the team emergency response and analysis of existing environmental standards, it was found that the release of ethyl alcohol in the soil disregarded environmental laws and could result in serious environmental damage in the area because of the potentially polluting product in question.
Because the release of ethyl alcohol on the ground, the railway company was assessed and notified to submit a full report of the accident, to promote and demonstrate the removal and proper disposal of contaminated soil layer and conduct environmental monitoring of the affected area to check persistence of combustible waste site.
This is the second occurrence of release of hazardous product managed by the company involving railroads in the region of Bauru in recent months. In February this year, the municipality of São Manuel, seven tank cars fell, causing the release of approximately 600 liters of diesel oil in the ground near the area of preservation of the creek that crosses the city. The event also resulted in the implementation of an environmental assessment notice to the company by the release of diesel oil in soil.
Source: IBAMA
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