Save Money And Lives Using A Spill Containment Berm

By Helene Norris


Civilization is complicated, with all the interactive emotions and relationships needed for a large group of people to get along and work together. The construction of the places this mass of humanity live; residential developments, villages and cities, are even more complicated. When it comes to the dangers of such construction, the safety of all nearby is enhanced by a simple construct, the spill containment berm.

For the majority of people, the physical construction of the buildings and infrastructure of a city happen by magic, and they give little thought to the details of how it is done. The reality is that there are a lot of dangers involved with building construction and demolition. The amount of hazardous material at such work sites is surprisingly high, considering the low level of mishaps.

In addition, the nature of construction leaves the site open and unfinished for long periods of time, subject to the whims of weather. No matter how careful the construction company is, rainwater will either carry off contaminants from the site in solution or simply wash them away. Groundwater, rivers and streams can become polluted and all of it ultimately washes out to the nearest lake or the ocean.

For the most part, safety regulations, inspections and common sense supervision keeps contaminants under control, but some level of discharge can not be avoided. When a building is being demolished, there is very likely the specter of asbestos fibers being disturbed and dispersed. This cancer causing material was ubiquitously used in buildings throughout the past 100 years, despite the danger it posed.

In addition to the necessary chemicals and products that area part of the process of construction every work site has the need for equipment and tools which all run on some kind of power. The heavy machinery is most likely run via internal combustion engines, and the equipment is powered by mobile power generators. All of this requires the most commonly used hazardous material; fossil fuels.

Technology has provided some solutions to the ever present vulnerability of leaks and spills with products created to absorb liquids and others to neutralize them or render them harmless. But with all the high tech solutions, there is the obvious secondary problem that the spilled liquid is lost. When it is an expensive material necessary to the work, this affects the bottom line.

The most obvious chemical needed in bulk at any major work site is gasoline, used to power almost everything. Heavy equipment is usually shipped in to a site, because they are far to inefficient to actually drive anywhere of significant distance. Moving them repeatedly for the purpose of refueling would be prohibitively expensive, so the gasoline is trucked in and stored nearby, in compliance with local laws.

The common thread with such regulation is that not only must the storage tank meet requirements, it must be position in an area that has the ability to contain it after a spill or leak. Using a spill containment berm lined with approved thickness plastic is the most logical mediation. It also allows for the secondary recovery of the material for reuse, minimizing loss.




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