Published - April 23, 2025 @ 6:47 PM
Alert: Landfill Gas Collection and Control Equipment Potentially Planned Down Time on 4/25/2025 at 8:00am
On Friday, April 25, 2025, Chiquita may experience downtime of Flare 3 beginning at 8am for a total duration of up to 3 hours to clean the flame arrestor, and of the Zeeco thermal oxidizer beginning at 1pm for a total duration of up to 2 hours to clean the detonation arrestor and swap flow meters.
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.