| 2001 ACS Award Winners | |
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The award recipients are listed below: |
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| 2001 Risk Reduction Achievement Award | |
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MSD employees Mike Heitz (left), Leroy Boone (middle) and Director Pat Karney (right) pose with the award. |
The Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSD) received this award for eliminating chlorine at the Mill Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Lower Price Hill. The chlorine, which was formerly stored on site in up to four 90-ton railcars at a time, was replaced with sodium hypochlorite. Mill Creek had used chlorine gas to treat wastewater since the facility was constructed in 1959. |
| 2001 Risk Reduction Achievement Award | |
Rick Tremblay (left) of P&G poses with the award. |
The Procter & Gamble Company's Ivorydale Plant in St. Bernard received this award for eliminating nearly 100 tons of sulfur trioxide, a chemical used to make liquid detergents. For 26 years, sulfur trioxide was unloaded via tanker trucks and stored in a large storage tank on site. If accidentally released to the environment, sulfur trioxide forms a fuming acid, which can cause chemical burns and asphyxiation. The likelihood of a release is now nearly non-existent. |
| 2001 Risk Communication Excellence Award | |
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Charlie Perry of the Greater Cincinnati Hazardous Materials Unit poses with the award. |
Charlie Perry, director of the Greater Cincinnati Hazardous Materials Unit and chair of the Alliance's Emergency Response Committee, received this award for helping establish the use of weather radios for public notification of hazardous material incidents. Charlie pursued this idea on a voluntary basis over a two-year period, working with the Hamilton County Emergency Management Agency, the Ohio Emergency Management Agency and NOAA's National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio. His idea became reality on August, 15, 2001. |
