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    Complaint

    89384
    WPC
    7/10/2020
    Voice Mail
    Sewage Bypass / Overflow
    7/10/2020
    20-NOV-2023 12:22PM

    Location based on SITE_ID

    Site ID
    9417
    Site
    BAE SYSTEMS Ordnance Systems Inc. Holston Army Ammunition Plant (HSAAP)
    Location
    4509 West Stone Drive (Area B) Industrial Drive (Area A)
    City
    Kingsport
    Description
    Production of explosives for national defense
    County
    Hawkins
    EFO Name
    Johnson City
    Site Owner
    BAE Systems Ordnance Systems Inc.

    Investigation Results

    Issue Resolved
    7/10/2020
    BAE Systems Ordnance Systems Inc.
    7/15/2020

    Description and Writeup

    Jacob Hite (BAE Systems/HSAAP) left voicemail for BBC during evening of 10-July-2020 to report a sanitary sewer overflow. The overflow had been stopped by the time of report and cleanup activities were underway. The written report received 15-July-2020 estimated 10 gpm of overflow for approximately three hours because of a power outage at the HSAAP Area B facility. Sewage overflowed from three points in the collection system at the B217 pump station and near the onsite steam plant. BAE Systems personnel notified the downstream First UD of Hawkins County WTP of the overflow. The overflow ended when power was restored to the pump station, and impacted soil was excavated for proper disposal.