Release Prevention

How Will Potential Releases Be Prevented?



The City currently has safety systems in place for the prevention of a release, which include:

Chlorine Gas


  • Low Level Chlorine Gas Detection Monitors
  • Chlorine Detection Alarms
  • Employee Training
  • Standard Operating Procedures
  • Process Safety Management
  • Gas Scrubbers (2nd half of 1999)
  • Automatic, vacuum-loss, shut-off system in 1999

Methane Gas


  • Portable Low Level Gas Detection Monitors
  • Automated shut down system
  • Automated Management System
  • Employee training
  • Standard Operating Procedures
  • Process Safety Management / Pressure / Vacuum Release Valves
  • Pressure Regulator / Thermal Shut-off Valves