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SC environmental officials monitoring runoff from plant fire
posted 11:52 am Tue April 29, 2008 - St. George, SC
(AP) -- State environmental officials say runoff from the thousands of gallons of water sprayed on a fire at a South Carolina recycling plant may be hazardous.
Officials from the Department of Health and Environmental Control told The Post & Courier that tests performed on runoff water from the Premier Environmental Services site were too caustic to allow into the groundwater.
Agency spokesman Thom Berry said the contamination could have come from hundreds of gallons of sodium hydroxide stored at the plant.
The facility where plastic bottles and cardboard are shredded and compressed burned last weekend.
Officials are still investigating what caused the fire.
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