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Based upon submitted discussions it was decided to dispose of the turbine, compressor and auxillary box as a PCB contaminated waste and move the contaminated articles to a PCB landfill.
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The quarterly Transwestern/SoCal PCB management committee mtg was held via conference call.
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Invoices and charges were discussed which So cal had charged to their management and handling of PCB's on their system.
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At 86%, Transwestern's responsibility was $71,208.61.
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Clearances were received from the F&W and SHPO for the additional areas for the powerline transmission corridor of the Gallup C/S which is in progress.
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A custom fuel monitoring request wqas submitted to Region VI EPA for the Installation and testing has been initiated on the precombustion chambers for the Superiors at the Atoka No. 3 C/S.
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While fabrication is in progress for the correct chamber, temporary Waukesha chambers were installed.
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Even though the chambers were not of the correct size and configuration, a 12.5% fuel savings was achieved and emissions were reduced by over 56%.
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The correct chambers will be available and installed sometime next week.
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Mike I wanted to give a short update on the latest events related to the PCB issue with PG&E.
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Transwestern met with PG&E this last Wednesday with an agenda that included some sharing of sampling results collected downstream of their first C/S (Topock) and on out west toward their main distribution areas.
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With respect to the most recent sampling data, Low PCB concentrations (N.D. to 38 ppm) have been detected in drips and interconnects between Topock and Hinckley C/S.
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The good news is that PCB's have not been detected downstream of Hinckley which is approx.
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160 miles from the Topock C/S.
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PG&E has also initiated construction and installation of some drips and small separators at locations where their gas feeds into other lines or directly into customers.
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the proposed installation date for the large mainline filter separators is still on target for 6/1/00.
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Now for the bad news.
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At the conclusion of the meeting, PG&E has stated that they want their Topock C/S decontaminated.
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This includes all piping and equipment.
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I stated to them the impractabibility and zero success rate of removing all the PCB's from their system and that there would be no quarantees that the deconning would be successful.
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The contract PCB deconning companies only have permits which would guarantee cleanup to 10 ug.
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They were told that it would be impossible to clean everything and that in all probability the PCB concentrations would be showing up as the gas continues to move through the system.
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Additionally, the better remediation approach would be to continue to remove PCB containing liquids at strategic locations.
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Even with this, they were pretty insistent that their management wanted the facility cleaned.
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Preliminary $$ estimates range to approx.
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3-5 million.
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I think that this is only the "tip of the iceberg".
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If they are successful with this action, the pipeline system will be next.
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Their pipeline is not piggable and to make it such would require replacement of pipe, valves etc. Ill keep you informed on this,,,,,,,
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Michael, our liquids data collections have been pretty lean.
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Its only been in the last couple of months where we have actually collected any arsenic data.
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I will send to you what data have have with respect to arsenic, including some historic reserch in the Abo field of southeast New Mexico where the arsenic is generated from down hole.
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The source is not so much from what is coming out of the wells (catalyst towers were installed in the late 80's to trap the arsenic) as the residual which has collected in the pipeline prior to the installation of the catalyst towers.......
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As a reminder, the state of Texas requires releases of natural gas greater than 119 mscf to the atmosphere (in a 24 hour period), to be reported to the Regional Offices of the TNRCC.
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These releases include but may not be limited to the following: ESD's, startups, shutdowns, pipeline ruptures and maintenance activities.
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