IDEM Emergency Response

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IDEM Emergency Response

• 888-233-7745
• www.IN.gov/idem/er

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Agenda

• Indiana Spill Rule
• Remedial Response Referrals
• Spill Assessment
• Available for Assistance

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Indiana Spill Rule

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Highpoints

• Applicability
• Definitions
• Reportable Facility Spills
• Reportable Transportation Spills
• Responsibilities of Spiller

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Applicability

• Reporting
• Containment
• Response

• Hazardous Substances
• Extremely Hazardous Substances
• Petroleum
• Objectionable Substances

For Spills of
Rule applies to
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Definition of Objectionable Substance

• Means substances that are of a quantity, and a
  type, and are present for a duration and in a
  location so as to damage waters of the state.

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Definition of Damage

• Means the actual or imminent alteration of the
  waters of the state so as to render the waters
  harmful, detrimental, or injurious.

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Definition of Waters

• Means the accumulations of water, surface and
  underground, natural and artificial, public and
  private.
• The term does not include any private pond or any
  off-stream pond, reservoir, or facility built for
  reduction or control of pollution or cooling of
  water unless the discharge threatens to cause
  water pollution.

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Definition of Spill

• Means any unexpected, unintended, abnormal, or
  unapproved dumping, leakage, drainage, seepage,
  discharge or other loss of petroleum, HS, EHS, or
  objectionable substance.

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Definition of Contain

• Means to take such immediate action as necessary
  to dam, block, restrain, or otherwise act to most
  effectively prevent a spill from entering waters
  of the state or minimize damage to waters of the
  state from a spill.

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Definition of Spill Response

• Means the spill is
• 1. contained, and
• 2. free material is removed or neutralized.

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Reportable Spills - Facility

• Damage water death, injury, illness to humans,
  animals
• Soil spills Wellhead Protection Areas
• Damage water private wells, special waters
• Most other applications
• No spill response was performed

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Reportable Spills - FacilityMost other
applications

• Surface Water RQs
• Offsite Soil RQs
• Onsite Soil RQs

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Reportable Spills - Transportation

• Damage waters death, injury, illness to humans,
  animals
• Spills that damage surface waters
• Soil RQs
• No spill response was performed

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Responsibilities of Spiller

• Any person who operates, controls, or maintains
  any mode of transportation or facility from which
  a spill occurs shall, upon discovery of a
  reportable spill to the soil or surface waters of
  the state, do the following

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Responsibilities, contd

• CONTAIN from waters of state
• Spill Response - remove spilled materials
• REPORT to IDEM Spill Line
• Submit written report (when asked)
• NOTIFY offsite land owners, water users

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Remedial Response Referrals

• Spill Hand-offs to
• IDEM Remediation Branch

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Emergency is over,Refer when response actions

• Threatens existing structures
• Destroys sensitive environment, not save it
• Threatens public and responder safety
• Has no technological solution
• Has no short term solution
• As IDEM sees appropriate

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Spill case flow
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Spill Impact Assessment
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Spills to Water

• Water dynamics
• Flowing waters vs. standing
• Observations discoloration, chemical odors, etc
• Spill dynamics - Discharging vs. contained
• Condition of Flora, Fauna
• Live
• Stressed, damaged
• Dead

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Spills to Soil

• Native sandy/gravelly soils
• Back-filled areas, loose sandy/gravelly
• Underground structures
• water wells
• utilities, pipelines
• septic systems, dry-wells, etc.
• Call before you dig 800-382-5544

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Spills into Sewers

• Storm sewers, field tiles
• Storm water grates, manhole lids, tile risers
• Catchment basins - recovery point
• Surface discharge points - recovery point
• Sanitary sewers
• Notify Waste Water Treatment Plant ASAP
• Combined sewers
• All the above

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Safety FirstDo not endanger yourself during
spill investigation activities!

• No tasting spills to identify unknowns.
• No inhaling gases to identify unknowns.
• No touching materials to identify unknowns.
• No going into hazardous atmospheres.
• No reservations calling for assistance.
• No forgetting safety comes first.

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IDEM ER

• Available for Assistance

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Call us for

• Reportable spills
• Abandoned drums
• Wastewater emergencies
• Fire water runoff emergencies
• Technical assistance
• For all environmental emergencies

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Fifty-eight pales of paint waste, partially
hidden under duck weed.
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Greencastle - Full chlorine tankers led to
evacuation of 3,500 residents
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Ohio River - 25K gallons of fuel spilled when
barge ran aground.
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Logansport - After BLEVE of Toluene Di-Isocyanate
rail car.
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Crawfordsville - Cafeteria condiments in Big
Walnut Creek
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Laurel, IN On banks of Whitewater River
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Over application of animal waste and spills to
surface water
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Elkhart - Rail yard diesel fuel spill
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Surface water petroleum containment
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Surface water petroleum recovery
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Evansville - Severe surface water petroleum impact
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Madison County - partial tomato waste water
treatment failure
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Mayonnaise in surface water
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Turf grass herbicide in surface water
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Waste water lagoon effluent
Hog manure
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Crude oil in surface pond
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IDEM Emergency Response

• 888-233-7745
• www.IN.gov/idem/er