
{"id":754,"date":"2007-08-16T08:35:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T16:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/08\/16\/piedmont-biofuels-to-pay-town-after-spill\/"},"modified":"2007-08-16T08:35:16","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T16:35:16","slug":"piedmont-biofuels-to-pay-town-after-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/08\/16\/piedmont-biofuels-to-pay-town-after-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"Piedmont Biofuels to pay town after spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Jack Carley<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Piedmont Biofuels will pay the town of Pittsboro an estimated $10,000 after a spill of about 150 gallons of glycerine into water discharged by the plant damaged treatment facilities and incurred state penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Leif Forer, chief engineer at Piedmont Biofuels, said the company was working with the town to fix problems caused by the spill and to pay fines levied against the town.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If we caused a problem,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Forer said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make good for it, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll figure out how to make it never happen again.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Piedmont Biofuels has since stopped discharging \u00e2\u20ac\u0153washwater\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d used in manufacturing biofuel \u00e2\u20ac\u201d after it was also found that the washwater contained levels of organic material too high for the Pittsboro water treatment facility to process.<br \/>\nPittsboro allowed Piedmont Biofuels to discharge washwater into Pittsboro sewers starting in March, Forer said. After the glycerine spill was found and the source of the organic content was identified in early June, Piedmont Biofuels stopped discharging the water.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know at the time was that washwater was heavy-duty for what the plant was used to,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Forer. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What we now know is that the plant had been struggling but they weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure why. No one knew the washwater had anything to do with it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Forer said the co-op has built a wastewater pretreatment plant, a measure that will allow washwater to be cleaned before public treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jack Carley Staff Writer Piedmont Biofuels will pay the town of Pittsboro an estimated $10,000 after a spill of about 150 gallons of glycerine into water discharged by the plant damaged treatment facilities and incurred state penalties. Leif Forer, chief engineer at Piedmont Biofuels, said the company was working with the town to fix&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}