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Facility Name: Burlington Main    
Caller Name And Title: Matthew Dow, Wastewater Facilities Manager    
Municipality: City of Burlington    
Location (street or site): Main WWTF    
Incident Start Date: 06/18/2022    
Incident End Date: 06/18/2022    
Incident Start End Times: 08:40 pm to 10:25 pm    
Estimated Duration Of Event:    
Nature Of Incident: Discharged treated and partly disinfected effluent    
Estimated Volume (gallons): Approximately 400,000    
Cause Of Discharge: Mechanical Failure    
Type Of Obstruction:    
Point Of Discharge: WWTF outfall    
Corrective Action Taken: Staff responded to the alarm and increased the disinfection dosage and monitored through the night. Staff are still looking into the cause of the RAS pump issues at the time of this post.    
Waterbody Impacted: Lake Champlain    
Contact Name And Title For Public: Matthew Dow, Wastewater Facilities Manager    
Call Date:    
WW Staff Called:    
Type Of Notification: nForms    
Public Overflow Report For Web: Y    
   
   
   
Description Of Incident: A suspected issue with an RAS pump cause some minor solids loss, leading to the disinfection system not putting out enough sodium hypochlorite to adequately disinfect the treated effluent.    
   
nForm Submission Number: HPJ-HY2Z-59YQ9