Alert: Landfill Gas Collection and Control Equipment Unplanned Down Time
Under the new Condition 81 of the August 27, 2024 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.
On Wednesday, September 25, 2024, Chiquita experienced unplanned downtime of Flares 2 and 3 due initially to a generator failure. Flare 2 was offline for approximately nine hours and 50 minutes; the extended downtime was due to pilot failure. Flare 3 was offline for approximately 3 hours and 50 minutes. Chiquita is not aware of increased odors in the community during this downtime.
Chiquita continues to work to diligently comply with regulator orders.