Vancouver Fire and Rescue was called to B.C. Place Stadium at 10:43 p.m. Tuesday after a large quantity of diesel fuel leaked from the overflow valve of a tank near the east airlock doors.
Captain Gabe Roder said the leak was quickly stopped and the diesel absorbed. The hazardous materials team “dammed the spill to prevent further leakage to the sewer system," Roder said.
VANOC’s shipping container-sized Aggreko diesel generators are running around the clock outside B.C. Place in case of a power outage. Neither VANOC nor B.C. Place management responded to an interview request before deadline.
The incident was the second in less than a week at the site of the Feb. 12 Olympic opening ceremony. Rainwater that pooled atop the air-supported fabric roof flooded through drainage holes on Jan. 14. The weight of speakers and lights is flattening the 27-year-old roof.
Bob Mackin reports for Vancouver 24 hours.
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DPL
2 years ago
So just why is Vanoc running
So just why is Vanoc running the auxillary generators continuously? If there is a power outage either the system would kick in or a staffer could push the button. If it works for places with auxillary why not at the dome buildin Green Circus! BS. I no one in charge.
Gary
2 years ago
Auxilliary Generators
DPL is correct. A simple thing as a switch gear would automatically fire up the genset. And while we're at it what is the matter with using the already installed auxiliary generators inside the dome. Don't tell me there are none in a place that was engineered like this.
Let's see. The cost of diesel $.95. If the generators are large 8 cylinder ones the consumption would be around say 8 gallons per hour. So that's 22.80 per day. AT IDLE.Then these units would have to be shut down for maintenance every so man hundred hours.
Under a load that would increase to about thirty gallons per hour. Do the math for a system that already has a backup system with switchgears.
I sure hope that those units outside are in enclosures with hospital grade mufflers otherwise people that live in the area would be going crazy by now.
Gary
2 years ago
Oh...
And since they are shipping container sized that means they are most likely 16 cylinder units.Do some more math.
Van Isle
2 years ago
Your right DPL, I use to
Your right DPL, I use to work with emergency standby generators. The time of Hydro failure to emergency generator powered up and on line was a mere 11 seconds. Those emergency electrical units were 600 volts, 3 phase. The whole system was completly automated and nobody had to be around to "push a button" either.
DPL
2 years ago
In our little old strata
In our little old strata cira 1979, there is an auxillary generator. We check it once a month and a contractor checks it once a year. Power outage, and its up and running in a couple of seconds. But then again Vanoc does everything the most expensive way because unlike our system, they arn't paying the bills.
freebear
2 years ago
Thought the headline was a rock concert a la
Midnight Oil!
The greenest games running on diesel generators!