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The Battery Recycling Co. Oil Removal

 
Site Contact:
Geoffrey Garrison
OSC, CIC

(garrison.geoffrey@epa.gov)

Site Location:
PR-2 Km 72.2
Barrio Cambalache
Arecibo, PR 00612
 response.epa.gov/TBRC_Oil_Removal

Removal Action to address the threat of release from approximately 170,000 gallons of used oil and contact water within the secondary containment of the tank farm at the non-operational facility owned by The Battery Recycling Company Inc. (TBRC), Arecibo, Puerto Rico.


Decontamination of a concrete surface inside secondary containment of the tank farm View of the secondary containment structure after the oil removal Oil inside the secondary containment structure of the tank farm
For additional information, visit the Pollution/Situation Report (Pol/Sitreps) section.