LOWER PROVIDENCE TWP, PA--The Department of Environmental Protection is investigating an incident that occurred October 18th at the Superior Tube Company in Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County.
Just after 9 a.m., company officials reported a 12-gallon spill of trichloroethylene, commonly known as TCE, from a 55-gallon drum inside the facility. Initial readings by the company's handheld monitors detected 100 ppm of TCE vapors immediately over the spilled material just after the
incident. Follow-up indoor monitoring by Superior workers shortly thereafter showed levels quickly decreased to 1 ppm.
The spill was confined to a containment area inside the building and was cleaned promptly, resulting in no airborne TCE levels detected by Superior workers monitoring outside the building. DEP quickly notified local officials and sent agency inspectors to the site to ensure cleanup had been completed and to take air samples at the perimeter of Superior Tube's property.
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
www.depweb.state.pa.us
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