Framework
-Traffic accident with a cistern truck involved. Break in a compartment of 11.000 L of diesel.
-Polluted soil in the slope, the forest, and the agricultural area.
-Goal: Excavation to temporary storage area. Later, management to class II-Non hazardous landfill as fast as possible avoiding hydrocarbon dispersion to subsoil and close streams.
Carried out operation
-Coordination of emergency services, containment of pollution migration and reach identification.
-Cut down of trees of the affected area and management of the forest land (12 t).
-Measurement of volatiles by PID and soil sampling.
-Surface water sampling of the zone.
-1.400 t of total excavated and managed volume
-Slope and road reconstruction and its drainage.
-Filling and compaction with external land
Results obtained
-1 month of works in 2011
-Evacuation of all polluted lands
-Road traffic was not interrupted
