Licensee declared an Alert due to requesting offsite assistance related to loss of plant water service. Water service line break is onsite. Plant water service is used to operate facility process equipment. Licensee is presently shutting down plant facility process equipment. Notified Richland County and State of
South Carolina. Local fire department providing temporary water service via fire trucks.
Currently there are no releases to the environment and no threat to public health and safety.
- * * UPDATE AT 1755 EDT ON 05/15/08 FROM COUTURE TO ROTTON * * *
Licensee terminated Alert at 1745 EDT. Plant Water system has been restored. Plant personnel are flushing water system prior to returning to service and starting up plant process systems.
Licensee notified state and local agencies.
Notified R2DO (Sykes),
NMSS EO (Hill),
IRD (Gott),
DHS (Turner),
FEMA (Cannupp),
DOE (Yates), USDA (Timmons), and
HHS (Howard).