Alert: Landfill Gas Collection and Control Equipment Unplanned Down Time on 12/06/2024 at 3:36pm
On Friday, December 6, 2024, Chiquita experienced unplanned downtime of the Zeeco thermal oxidizer due to an actuator valve failure. The Zeeco thermal oxidizer was down for approximately one hour and 6 minutes. Due to this downtime, there was a possibility of increased odors in the community during the indicated time period.
Under Condition 81 of the Modified Stipulated Order for Abatement in Case No. 6177-4, Chiquita Canyon, LLC (Chiquita) is required to notify the community (i) if any individual control device has downtime which is anticipated to last 30 minutes or more or once any downtime for an individual control device reaches 30 minutes of downtime or (ii) if the downtime of any combination of landfill gas collection equipment results or is planned to result in a reduction of gas flow to control devices by 10% or more and the downtime is anticipated to last 30 minutes or more or once any downtime for such devices reach 30 minutes of downtime.