Roosevelt roads JP5; roosevelt roads navy base, puerto rico

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Roosevelt Roads JP5; Roosevelt Roads Navy Base, Puerto Rico.
Roosevelt Roads Navy Base, Puerto Rico.
1. At approximately 0100 on October 20, 1999 personnel at the US Navy Base Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico reported a spill of JP5 fuel from a day-tank near hanger 200. The cause is under investigation by USN, including the Judge Advocate General's office, but it is clear that a valve was left open which overfilled a day tank, fed from a larger storage facility. Initially, the USN reported to the National Response Center that 1,000 gallons of fuel had been spilled. Soon after that report, the amount was updated to 20,000 gallons and then to 100,000 gallons. The official spillage finally was determined to be 112,000 gallons. The oil flowed from the day tank into an underground drainage pipe, which runs under a runway and several roads for several hundred yards. The pipe empties into an open drainage ditch, which drains to a 29-acre mangrove forest. This forest drains through a culvert into [...]
2. THREAT: OIL. COMMODITY: JP5 (JET FUEL, NAVY FORMULATION). MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 112000 GALLONS.
3. POSITION 18.017N 065.067W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 7441: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/7441