Posted at 4:53 p.m., Thursday, May 19, 2005
Chevron Hawaii fined for hazardous waste violations
Associated Press
The state fined Chevron Hawaii Refinery Inc. $107,000 for storing a hazardous waste on its site without a permit and for other rule violations, the Department of Health said today.It also filed a complaint against Chevron, the state's largest oil refinery, and ordered it to comply with state waste rules, the department said in a news release.
Chevron was informed of the actions May 4, said Grace Simmons, the supervisor of the department's hazardous waste section.
DOH alleged Chevron stored a heat exchanger bundle encrusted with K050, a hazardous refinery waste, on its site for five years without a permit.
The department added Chevron allegedly failed to properly wash and remove the waste sludge from the bundle, or metal cooling tubes, before sending it to another company to be recycled.
K050 is a refinery waste that contains heavy metals such as chromium.
A spokesman for Chevron Hawaii Refinery did not immediately return a call for comment.
