DOW 3-A Report Investigated

agggg! Just another day at the entrance to HE11 !!

LINK –  http://youtu.be/dcZitD6iEIs

The Advocate – State looking into piping problem in cavern near Bayou Corne sinkhole

An internal piping problem inside a Dow Hydrocarbons underground storage cavern in Assumption Parish prompted automatic emergency systems to burn off propylene and shut the cavity.

Dow officials are working on plans to check the cavern — located about two miles away from an Assumption Parish sinkhole. The situation poses no immediate safety risk to the public. [says … ummm…DOW]

UPDATE

We have received reliable information that DNR didn’t even know about this other cavern problem until they were told about it by a local resident. It looks like these company reports and agency reports about the vigilant monitoring and in-person, daily inspections are exaggerated or worse, not happening at all.

E-mail that was sent to DNR – it was replied to, proving they read it – SOURCE PROTECTED:

From: XXXXXXX

Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 09:40 AM

To: Stephen Chustz (DNR – Secretary)

Good morning, Mr. Chustz

I’ve received inside information that storage cavern Dow#3A is failing… my contact says that they are currently emptying it of polypropylene due to a possible casing failure.

If this is true, there needs to be a warning sent out to residents as well as our parish president and our director of emergency preparations.

In my estimation, this is an emergency procedure, not a “normal” procedure… if this is the norm, then the entire cavern storage industry needs to be re-examined.

This was sent to us –

This is the same thing that Jefferson Island Storage & Hub has done for years to the people that live on Lake Peigneur.  Loud noises would be heard & the residents would not know what was going on.  A lot of company trucks would show up & the residents were not told a thing.  Later when the press reported it the company would say, oh, it was nothing.

The Department of Natural Resources was contacted  on July 12^th by Dow for a permit to fix the problem.  Why didn’t the DNR notify the Police Jury at the time?  Why wasn’t Dow 5 an old EDC storage cavern that failed last year prior to the sinkhole wasn’t reported to the citizens of Bayou Corne but a hold was placed on doing any P&A?

• This started on July 11 and Dow did not report this to the parish Homeland Security.
• The problem with the Dow’s cavern Dow 3A started on July 11 and the Assumption Parish Police Jury was not told until July 18!
• The Department of Natural Resources was contacted  on July 12th by Dow for a permit to fix the problem.  Why didn’t the DNR notify the Police Jury at the time?  Why wasn’t Dow 5 an old EDC storage cavern that failed last year prior to the sinkhole wasn’t reported to the citizens of Bayou Corne but a hold was placed on doing any P&A?

Assumption Parish Police Jury

Earlier, a report was made to our office about an incident at the Dow Chemical Facility in Grand Bayou. Below are the findings (from the facility) specific to this report:

Their is a hanging string failure to Dow 3A; however, there are no issues to the packer sleeve or the casing. The cavern is shut in and all of the safety devices did work properly and the product was sent to the flare. Afterwards, the cavern was completely shut in.

They are currently performing an interface log to check the product location, to develop the plan for the work over of the well. All lines are shut in and no product is being moved at this time until the log is complete and a plan is developed.

No risk to the public has been identified and DNR is continuing to investigate this report.

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