Major Phosphoric Acid Incident - U.S. National Response Team (NRT)

Incident Challenges Volume of wastewater: 25-170 million gallonspotential Agency understanding of the fertilizer and gypsumstack processes and current managementpractices of Agrifos – learned something newevery day RP’s s lack of objective processes, procedures,planning to “manage” the wastewater RP’s s apparent lack of understanding of agencyconcerns and roles – CERCLA, CWA Realistic options for dealing with the extremeconditions and pH2 water Weather -Tropical Storm/Hurricane Humberto