2500L Fuel Tank Replacement for Small Town Supermarket
The Customer
Store based in a small market costal town on the south coast of Kent owned by a prestigious food retail division of Britain’s largest employee owned retailer with 300+ branches across the UK.
The Generator Company received a telephone call from the store informing us that a manoeuvring lorry had seriously damaged a 2500 litre fuel tank. The first response engineer arrived within an hour of the call out to assess the tank and concluded that it was damaged beyond repair.
Emergency fuel contamination procedures were put into place to prevent fuel oil entering the drainage system and flowing into an adjacent canal approximately 50 yards away.
Sand bags, fuel oil socks and soak up pads were used to direct the fuel oil spillage into the water drainage interceptor away from other drainage that would cause a huge environmental problem by allowing fuel oil into the Canal water system.
Within 2 hours, our rental division, Powerhire, had delivered a temporary 2000 litre fuel tank complete with fuel, which was off loading using our own crane lorry and connected to the generator to provide the store with a standby facility. The lorry also removed the damaged tank. Once the damaged fuel tank was removed the spilt fuel and the service yard was cleaned up.
The Generator Company arranged for the attendance of a specialist waste disposal company to attend the site the following day to remove the contents of the water drainage interceptors for recycling.
The temporary tank remained on site whilst a bespoke 2500 litre nominal capacity double skinned metal fuel tank was manufactured.
Once manufactured, it was off-loaded at the site using our own Hiab crane lorry with remote control.
This enabled us to lift the tank over a 12ft wall adjacent to the generator allowing the lorry operator to remain in the yard to oversee the positioning of the tank, which was re-located to ensure safety from further damage.
Following completion of the installation, the generator was run and the new system tested.
