Published - November 14, 2024 @ 10:44 AM
Alert: Landfill Gas Collection and Control Equipment Planned 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 Saturday, November 16, 2024, Chiquita plans to perform burner tip cleaning and exchange, which is expected to result in the downtime of the Zeeco thermal oxidizer beginning at 8am. Following the restart of the Zeeco thermal oxidizer, Chiquita plans to perform cleaning of the flare flame arrestor, which is expected to result in the shutdown of Flare 2 starting between 12pm and 1pm and lasting for a maximum of 4 hours. All work will be completed by 5pm. Chiquita is not aware of increased odors in the community during this downtime.
Chiquita continues to work to diligently comply with regulator orders.