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3.0 EMERGENCY ACT1VLTIES <br />The pipeline was shut down on Sunday morning (February 23, 1986) at <br />8 A.M. IT Corporation was called in and clean-up and monitoring commenced <br />later that same day. Further details of emergency operations are as <br />described below: <br />3.1 Site Cleanup <br />As a result of the flooding, petroleum products contained by the <br />landfill were carried into the adjacent Whiskey and Trapper Sloughs. To <br />contain the spread of product, IT Corporation installed permanent and <br />disposable type booms at critical. points along the edges of the sloughs and <br />across the ends of a connecting tidal culvert (See Drawing 4). Floating <br />product was collected by vacuum truck or by absorotion with floating pads. <br />Since cleanup commenced (approximately four weeks ago), IT Corporation has <br />disposed of at least 380 barrels of fluid which was approximately 70% water <br />and 30% products. Also, a volume of solid debris collected from the <br />landfill site, the levees and surrounding surface waters was also disposed <br />of. <br />3.2 Fuels Containment and Waste Management <br />A number of pits and trenches were excavated at the landfill site as <br />part of efforts to assess the magnitude of the leak and the migration into <br />nearby Trapper Slough. A total of nine separate excavations were in place <br />by March 6. These excavations include: <br />A large 20 foot diameter, 15-foot deep pit <br />A 60 foot long, 5-foot wide and 6-foot deep trench <br />A 7 foot long, 2-1/2-foot deep trench <br />A 10 foot long, 5-foot deep trench <br />A 7 foot long, 5-foot deep trench <br />3-1