At around 6 a.m., a leak occurred on a digestate tank in a wastewater collection and treatment[...]the opening, then stopping up the opening 1 hour later, stopped the flow. The digestates retained and those remaining in the digester[...]firm's pumping machinery. They were stored in a silo on the site. The digestate storage tank was flushed and cleaned. The[...]The two samples taken, with fast result analyses, showed weak dilution of the digestates in the stream, but strong dilution as[...] Read more →

Following the event, the operator planned to lower the level of material in the tanks. The Classified Facilities Inspectorate also requested that an analysis of the digestates coming from the materials pumped in the retention area and reintroduced into the anaerobic digestion process should be performed before spreading.

Restarting of the digester was performed 6 weeks[...] Read more →

In all, 60 m³ of digestate was discharged into the[...]the standard (30 cm from the edge) and that digestate did not need to[...]this subject. At 9:30 a.m., an operator started the digestate transfer pump linking the[...] Read more →

On a Sunday at around 3 p.m., smoke generated by fermentation of organic matter was discharged into a 500m³ poultry manure shed at a methanisation plant. The alarm was raised by a technician present on the site following the emergency order issued after a digestate tank overflow, 6 days earlier (ARIA 55959). Firefighters sprayed the manure with 2 hoses to lower the temperature, and the manure was removed from the shed with a[...] Read more →