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Tuesday, May 24, 2022–Flood Control Efforts in Pasadena
City of Pasadena’s Rick Masters will talk about projects underway and planned in the city Harris County Flood Control District Precinct Coordinator for Pct 2 Jeremy Ratcliff will discuss projects underway and planned.
Read MoreTuesday, April 26, 2022- How Plants Prevent Flooding on and off the Plant Site
For Pasadena Citizens’ Advisory Council’s second of four meetings on flooding, a round robin discussion let plant members describe what they do to prevent flooding on and off the plant site. Some PCAC plants are located on the Houston Ship Channel. Others are along SH 225. There were common themes as well as unique features…
Read MoreThursday, March 24, 2022–The Galveston Bay Report Card
PCAC is planning a series of meeting on flooding. Flooding is a concern to residents and businesses because of risks to lives and property. Flooding is also a concern because flood waters flow to Galveston Bay and may affect its multiple uses. So we will launch the series with a look at the bay. (Our…
Read MoreTuesday, February 22, 2022: Annual Report on Worker Safety in CAC Plants
PCAC will collect and present OSHA recordable injury and illness data for PCAC plants, covering both employees and contractors. The report will contain details about each plant plus summaries showing the totals for all plants and the trends. We will discuss any patterns in the Type of Injuries and related best practices.
Read MoreTuesday, January 25, 2022: Plant Communication with the Community When Planning a Maintenance Turnaround
Derek Maytubby of LyondellBasell Refinery presented information about the typical timeline and steps for planning a major turnaround (TA). He shared a definition from the Project Maintenance Body of Knowledge and explained that TAs are complex events with many things that need to be considered. (Turnarounds may also be called shutdowns or outages or maintenance…
Read MoreThursday, December 2, 2021–Effects of Pollution on Health
Blythe Mansfield, MD, Chief Medical Officer for Unilever, NA, formerly of Kelsey Seybold Occupational Medicine, shared information about what air pollution is, kinds of exposure, and specifics about the EPA’s criteria pollutants, benzene, and 1-3, butadiene. She also described environmental and occupational causes of health problems and EPA’s proposed actions to advance environmental justice related…
Read MoreTuesday October 26, 2021–Annual Report on Air Emissions from PCAC Plants
Scott Kolb of Afton Chemical presented the annual report on PCAC plant air emissions. (PCAC plants rotate serving as the presenter.) The annual report derives its data from two annual inventories: the Air Emissions Inventory (EI), which plants submit to the TCEQ, and the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), which plants submit to the EPA. The…
Read MoreTuesday, September 28, 2021–What Plants do to Control and Reduce Emissions
The CAC changed its original plans for the September meeting because the speaker on Effects of Pollution had a conflict and was rescheduled to December 2. In prelude to the October meeting on the Annual Report on Emissions, PCAC plants shared examples of what they have done or planning to do to control and reduce…
Read MoreThursday, August 26, 2021– Update on August Lubrizol Deer Park Odor Event; Channel Industries Mutual Aid
CIMA will be asked to describe that they do, how mutual aid works, the kind of events they respond to, and how they work with plants that have an event. PCAC will also find out how different agencies are notified of significant events, including those with personnel on the water. PCAC will also ask how…
Read MoreTuesday, May 25, 2021–Program Planning and Coastal Texas Study Website
Using the break-out room feature of Zoom, attendees brainstormed and prioritized program topics for the remainder of 2021 and early 2022. Fifteen topics were suggested during 15 minutes of brainstorming. The group then used a Zoom poll to choose the top 5 of these subjects to put on agendas of the community-industry forum in the…
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