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Welcome to Volume 7, Issue 3 of USAutomatic Sprinkler FlashPoint News. Our enewsletter is a free quarterly publication that focuses on brief, but useful information about the fire protection industry. We highlight new products, innovations, and code changes that affect fire protection.
On July 11, 2008 U.S. Automatic Sprinkler Corporation held its quarterly workshop for our service and inspection customers. We reviewed and discussed Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) – what it is and how it affects sprinkler systems. We also discussed sprinkler system obstruction investigation requirements outlined in Chapter 13 of NFPA 25, Standard for the Inspection, Testing and Maintenance of Water Based Fire Suppression Systems.
Our guest presenter was Matthew Klein, an attorney with Bose, McKinney and Evans, LLP, who specializes in environmental law.
Have you thought about what could happen if water runoff from a sprinkler system activation in your facility, whether it be accidental or as a result of a fire, contaminated a nearby stream or waterway? This could be a possible scenario, especially if you store hazardous materials in your building. Mr. Klein discussed building owners’ limits of liability with regards to this scenario.
When was the last time anyone in your facility received training on your fire suppression and detection systems? Is your team operating on facts or tribal knowledge? Let U.S. Automatic Sprinkler enhance your education, potentially increasing safety. Please click here to visit our website for more information!
In order for sprinkler systems to be effective for fire control and extinguishment, internal piping and sprinkler heads must be free from obstructions such as scale, silt, other foreign organic and/or inorganic material.
Chapter 13 of NFPA 25, 2002 Edition outlines requirements for obstruction investigations which include “minimum requirements for conducting investigations of fire protection system piping for possible sources of materials that can cause pipe blockage.”
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IDEM Revises Its Self-Disclosure & Environmental Audit Policy
by Matthew T. Klein, Bose McKinney & Evans, LLP
Nearly 15 years ago, environmental policy leaders were debating environmental audit reports and how such reports might become enforcement fodder for the government’s civil and criminal investigators. The debate centered on whether environmental audit reports should be subjected to some sort of legal privilege and, additionally, whether the regulated entities disclosing potential violations identified by environmental audit reports should be afforded some kind of enforcement immunity.
Amid the controversy and a wide range of legislative proposals at the state and federal level, in 1996 EPA developed an enforcement discretion policy aimed at resolving the cloud of uncertainty over EPA’s position on environmental audits.
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1) What is MIC?
“MIC” is an acronym for microbiologically influenced corrosion, a mode of corrosion incorporating microbes that react and cause the corrosion or influence other corrosion processes of metallic materials.
2) What causes MIC?
MIC is caused by bacterial microbes in combination with four other environmental conditions: metals, nutrients, water and oxygen. These MIC-causing bacteria are commonly found throughout all types of water supplies. If the water in your sprinkler system tests positive for these bacteria, it doesn’t mean that you have MIC. All five environmental conditions must be present in a sprinkler system to cause the rapid growth of the MIC-related bacteria.
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