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Chapman
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May 2007 Newsletter
What Does Your Contractor Have to Know?
You use contractors for fuel system work, corrosion protection work, leak detection, environmental compliance, maybe environmental assessment. How do you find qualified companies? You can rely on referrals from people you respect. You can interview the person in charge. What’s really disheartening, though, is to find a company that seems to offer the skills, but once you get them working, you find out they don’t know the standard of care required in their industry niche.
For leak detection vendors and methods, you need the “third-party review” that showed the method or system meets the EPA requirements to find leaks, and not to have too many “false alarms.” These reviews were commissioned by the vendor. Was good science used, or did they hire somebody inexpensive who didn’t even put the right “science experiment” together to properly evaluate the system?
ATG’s are a good example. The third-party testers, some really excellent, set up a UST system and test the ATG. But this is a modern, well-built, properly wired, and well-run “facility.” Once ATG’s get put into real-world applications, they’re banged around during installation, may not be maintained regularly and properly, and all sorts of other factors can play havoc over time. Fuel tanks may be installed “out of level,” throwing off the math used to tell you how many inches convert to how many gallons.
All in all, leak detection may have the toughest standards to meet, when you compare equipment and services being delivered in the same way that a system got tested by the third-party reviewer. Ask questions!
Cathodic Protection
What qualifications does your CP provider have? Any licenses held through recognized organizations? Do you get designs that are site-specific, or do you get the same design no matter how this site differs from the other one? Again, ask questions!
Texas Legislature and TRRP Rule
Latest word is that the TRRP Rule, 30 TAC Chapter 350 which has made LSPT work so much more expensive on cases discovered after 9/1/03, probably will go away for LPST cases. This bill should pass. Then we’ll go back to using 30 TAC Chapter 334.
Thanks as always for your business, and call us with any questions or comments at 800-375-7747. Do you want to refer us to a friend?
Chapman Engineering Services, Inc. (CES) is an environmental engineering and services company offering unique underground storage tank (UST) release detection, remediation and equipment upgrade solutions to the petroleum retailing industry.
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