re: TPC Plant in Port Neches Explosion: Port Neches, Groves, and parts of Nederland Evacuated

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Evacuating that material has to happen underground to a pipe and outlet a good distance away.

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The plant has no power to operate any pumps there. I would imagine the only way to remove the contents manually would be if there were a depressuring system to the flare that could be manually opened. The flare may have been damaged during the explosions. If that is the case, the only way would be for the relief valves to discharge to the atmosphere once their set pressure is reached. Not really any good options other than to continue to keep them cool from deluging them and hope another explosion doesn’t result in the integrity being compromised from flying debris.