6-2 Traffic

What is the emergency response plan should a large tanker truck or other tractor trailer be involved in an accident and lose their cargo?

RESPONSE 6-2:

 

In addition to notifying the local and state police, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (“RIDEM”) Office of Emergency Response is contacted in the event of an environmental emergency.  The RIDEM Hot-line can be contacted any time for any emergency.  The delivery companies and CREC will work cooperatively with RIDEM in these events.

 

Furthermore, there are federal and state regulations that must be followed in order to transport hazardous materials.  The US Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration mandates that the following information must be carried when transporting hazardous materials:

 

  • The emergency response telephone number
  • The emergency response information on the shipping paper that includes the description of material, immediate hazards to health, immediate methods for handling small or large fires and spills or leaks, preliminary first aid measures.
  • All hazardous material transporters must have an appropriate placard on the outside of the vehicle.

 

Furthermore, the transport of materials to the proposed site is achieved along routes that allow hazardous material transport.  Route 100 has good horizontal and vertical geometry and has wide shoulders.   There are designated routes in Rhode Island that restrict the transport of hazardous materials and these routes are not in the project vicinity and not along the logical route to the site. 

 

RESPONDENT:

 

Maureen Chlebek, McMahon Associates

 

 

DATE:

May 11, 2016