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Facility Name:
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Burlington Main
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Caller Name And Title:
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Matthew Dow, Chief Operator
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Municipality:
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Burlington
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Location (street or site):
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Main wastewater treatment facility
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Incident Start Date:
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03/31/2017
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Incident End Date:
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04/01/2017
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Incident Start End Times:
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04:00 pm to 03:40 pm
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Estimated Duration Of Event:
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Nature Of Incident:
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Discharged treated and partly disinfected effluent
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Estimated Volume (gallons):
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>1,000,000 gallons
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Cause Of Discharge:
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High Flows
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Type Of Obstruction:
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Point Of Discharge:
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WWTF outfall
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Corrective Action Taken:
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Operators changed processes reducing the hydraulic flow and increased the chemical feed.
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Waterbody Impacted:
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Lake Champlain
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Contact Name And Title For Public:
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Megan Moir, Assistant DPW Director - Water Resources
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Type Of Notification:
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nForms
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Public Overflow Report For Web:
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Y
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Description Of Incident:
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The rain and snow from Friday and Saturday raised the flows at the plant to a level where the hydraulic load pushed solids out of the process reducing the ability to fully disinfect the effluent. This resulted in an E.coli of 800 col/100mls
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nForm Submission Number:
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HN3-SCH8-EGGMB
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