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Facility Name: Vergennes    
Caller Name And Title: Rick Chaput, Chief Operator    
Municipality: Vergennes    
Location (street or site): MacDonough Drive Pump Station    
Incident Start Date: 01/11/2015    
Incident End Date: 01/11/2015    
Incident Start End Times: 12:00 N - 6:00 PM    
Estimated Duration Of Event: 6 hours    
Nature Of Incident: Discharged untreated sewage    
Estimated Volume (gallons): 12700    
Cause Of Discharge: Mechanical Failure    
Type Of Obstruction:    
Point Of Discharge: Pump Station Emergency Overflow Pipe    
Corrective Action Taken: The on-call operator checked the pump station and called for assistance on Sunday afternoon (1/11/2015). RCI Electric responded and hard wired a pump. The operators ran the pump manually and pumped down the wet well to the normal operating level, which stopped the overflow. Dundon's Septic responded but was not needed to pump down the wet well. The operators worked shifts Sunday night and Monday (1/12/2015) to operate the pump manually to pump sewage from the pump station to the Vergennes Wastewater Treatment Facility. On Monday, the electrician was working to repair one drive and the operators were installing floats to operate the pumps.    
Waterbody Impacted: Potash Brook & Otter Creek    
Contact Name And Title For Public: Rick Chaput, Chief Operator    
Call Date: 01/12/2015    
WW Staff Called: Liz Dickson    
Type Of Notification: Phone    
Public Overflow Report For Web: Y    
   
   
   
Description Of Incident: The heater inside the MacDonough Drive Pump Station tripped out. A copper water pipe then froze, burst, and sprayed the Variable Frequency Drives for the pumps with water until the drives failed. Sewage backed up in the pump station wet well and overflowed.    
   
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