2023-10-14 10:49:10
This Friday afternoon, environmental pollution via a fuel oil leak took place in Raeren. The incident took place when a delivery man had just filled a resident’s two tanks with 2,100 liters of fuel oil. “Previously, the two tanks still contained 450 liters each. When filling, the deliveryman and the resident of the house would have checked if everything was normal and waterproof. They would not have noticed anything abnormal,” explains the police in the Vesdre-Gueule area, who were called to the scene.
The two men therefore left the garage and waited outside for the filling to finish. Except that, once the refueling was finished, they could only notice that a large quantity of fuel oil had escaped from the installation.
“The fuel oil flowed from the boiler room into the garage, then into the sewers,” said the police, who noted that a joint in the piping system (Editor’s note: the filling pipe) was no longer correctly installed. In the cellar where the tanks are located, the fuel oil came into contact with the floor, walls, all pipes and the exterior of the oil tank. “We can therefore assume that the fuel oil not only dripped, but was projected with a certain pressure. » Around 700 liters of fuel oil leaked.
However, the heating installation was not very old. It was installed in 2018 and, after undergoing a waterproof test, was approved for 10 years.
Also called to the scene, firefighters took the necessary measures.
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