Published - May 13, 2025 @ 1:43 PM
Alert: Landfill Gas Collection and Control Equipment Potentially Planned Down Time on 5/14/2025 at 1:00pm and 5/15/2025 at 1:00pm
On Wednesday, May 14, 2025, Chiquita may experience downtime of Flare 3 beginning at 1:00pm for a total duration of up to 90 minutes to perform to perform a flame arrestor swap. In addition, on Thursday, May 15, 2025, Chiquita may experience downtime of Flare 2 beginning at 1:00pm for a total duration of up to 90 minutes to perform a flame arrestor swap and flow meter swap. Due to these downtimes, there may be 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.
Chiquita continues to work to diligently comply with regulator orders.