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Evergreen Solar Emergency Response

 
Site Contact:
Melanie Morash
On-Scene Coordinator

(morash.melanie@epa.gov)

Site Location:
112 Barnum Road
Devens, MA
response.epa.gov/evergreensolar
NRC#: 887189

At 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 EPA OSC Melanie Morash responded to a release of several thousand gallons of a diluted hydrofluoric-sulfuric-nitric acid mixture at the Evergreen Solar facility (a solar panel manufacturer) in Devens, MA, near the former Fort Devens Military Base. Approximately 458 gallons overflowed a containment area under an air scrubber unit, flowing across a parking lot to a storm drain, then to a man-made vegetated retention pond where the liquid was apparently contained.


View of the air scrubber involved in the release and the concrete containment dike View of cleanup workers washing down impacted areas on the facility parking lot View of the vegetated, man-made retention pond that apparently contained the spilled liquids that migrated off-site
For additional information, visit the Pollution Report (POLREPS) section.