California Oil Storage Company Fined for Three Spills
Environment News Service, April, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO, California (ENS) — --> The bulk petroleum storage company IMTT-Richmond-CA has agreed to pay $157,500 to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and $85,507 to the California Department of Fish and Game Office of Spill Prevention and Response related to oil spills into the Santa Fe Channel, which flows into San Francisco Bay.
The three spills, which released a total of 8,600 gallons of oil into the environment, occurred between June 2002 and July 2004 at the company’s oil storage and transfer facility in Richmond. This facility can store more than 28 million gallons of oil in aboveground tanks.
The EPA discovered the violations during a September 2003 inspection.
In addition to the spills, which are violations of the federal Clean Water...
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