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Yenagoa—The Chief Navy Staff, Vice Admiral Dele Ezeoba, has challenged oil exploration companies to provide first line security that would ensure the integrity of their pipelines.

Vice Admiral Ezeoba, who led senior military officers, including the Flag Officer Commanding the Central Naval Command,  Yenagoa, Rear Admiral Olutoyin Johnson; Commander, Joint Task Force, Major-General Bata Debiro, among others, on a tour of the creeks of Bayelsa State up to the Brass Island, said the provision of the first line security would help deter would be intruders.

He said the battle against crude oil theft was the collective responsibility of all, and not that of the military alone.

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Ezeoba, who stopped at every oil installation during the tour, as well as the naval base operation, Formosa, on the Atlantic fringe of Brass, said: “The fight against the hydra-headed problem of pipeline vandalisation is the collective responsibility of all.

“The oil majors have a role to play. We, as security operatives, are the enforcement agencies that have responsibility for prosecution to ensure that these culprits who had been caught are charged to court, prosecuted and jailed. That would serve as a major deterrent to would be perpetrators.

“What we find today is that there is more of surveillance and response and that of enforcement is negligible. Nobody does anything and it is frustrating the efforts of the officers and men who put their lives on the line on daily basis to fight this menace.

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The word hepatitis comes from the Ancient Greek word hepar (root word hepat) meaning 'liver', and the Latin itis meaning inflammation. Hepatitis is a term used to describe inflammation (swelling) of the liver. It can occur as a result of a viral infection or because the liver is exposed to harmful substances such as alcohol.

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LOUDON, N.H. -- It was a day of major milestones for Kyle Busch, who tied Mark Martin for the career victory lead in the Nationwide Series with Saturday's win in the New England 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

The victory was Busch's sixth of the season in 14 starts and the 49th of his career, tying Martin. At the same time, Busch, 26, won for the 100th time in NASCAR's top three series combined.

Busch pulled away on a restart after contact from Steve Wallace knocked Joey Logano's Toyota into the Ford of Trevor Bayne on Lap 190 to cause the eighth caution of the race. The accident also collected the No. 32 Toyota of Reed Sorenson and deprived Sorenson of a chance to wrest the points lead from Elliott Sadler.

That wasn't the last major incident. When the field reached the second corner on Lap 197, a massive pileup slowed the race for the ninth time, and necessitated a green-white-checkered finish that sent the race six laps past its scheduled distance at the 1.058-mile flat track.

Busch beat Kevin Harvick to the finish line by .304 seconds. Kasey Kahne ran third, followed by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Aric Almirola.

Brad Keselowski was first out of the pits for a restart on Lap 130, with enough fuel to go the distance. After quickly dispatching Mikey Kile, Kenny Wallace and Stenhouse, who had stayed on the track under the fifth caution of the race, Keselowski opened a lead of more than a half-second over Stenhouse.

But Keselowski surrendered the top spot to Stenhouse on Lap 152 and began to fade. Stenhouse stayed out front through an intense battle with Busch until NASCAR called the sixth caution for debris on the frontstretch on Lap 167.

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Members of the Unite and SIPTU unions are in dispute with Tipperary County Council over a specific bonus payment.

The issue affects 97 outdoor road staff. The county council has a total of 450 outdoor staff.

The matter has been the subject of Labour Relation Commission and Labour Court hearings since 2010.

The Labour Court adjudicated on the matter in 2014, recommending a compensation payment to workers and the exit of the County Council from the bonus scheme.

County Council management say the compensation payment was made in line with the Labour court recommendation to allow the authority to exit the bonus scheme. Unions involved say their members rejected the Labour Court recommendation and the council proceeded to pay workers the compensation despite unions asking the authority not to pay it.

The specific bonus scheme was paid to workers of South Tipperary County Council in the outdoor roads section. It was not paid to outdoor roads staff in Clonmel Borough Council or any of the town councils that existed in South Tipperary prior to the merger of the two county councils. The payment did not exist in North Tipperary CountyCouncil.

United official Tony Kelly said the workers involved began to cast their votes on the issue last week.

The ballot will be concluded this Friday at the Cahir House Hotel at 4pm and the outcome of the vote will be made known.

Mr Kelly said the workers were being asked to decide on taking action up to and including strike action.

“Our members rejected the outcome of the Labour Court but the Council went ahead and paid out the compensation amount to exit the scheme and ignored our request not to pay it,” said Mr Kelly.

A Tipperary CountyCouncil statement said the authority had engaged extensively with unions and staff representatives over a number of years to resolve the matter.

The Council had fully accepted the Labour Court recommendation and complied with it. A review of the bonus scheme, agreed in consultation with unions, began in 2010 in light of a significant reduction in funding for local authorities in areas including road grants and a 25% reductionin staffing across all service areas..

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As I say in my column, Chinese slave labor is one of the most underreported stories in the world. (So is organ harvesting.) I also say, “I wish there were a way of knowing: of knowing which products are free-labor and which products are slave-labor.”

A reader writes to say, “My wife and I often wonder, ‘What must they think of us?’” What must Chinese laborers, particularly of the slave variety, think of us who buy, for example, Homer Simpson bedroom slippers?

In 2006, I interviewed a man named Charles Lee. That piece was called “Prisoner of the PRC: The experience of a Falun Gong practitioner.” Go here, if you like. In between bouts of torture, Lee was made to work. He put together Christmas lights. (Charming.) He also made Homer Simpson bedroom slippers — you put your foot where Homer’s mouth was.

I mention this in my column. But let me now quote from the 2006 piece: “I ask, by the way, what [Lee] thinks of people in the Free West who buy those slippers. He says, ‘Oh, they just want the cheapest product. But I feel that, if they knew about my situation, it would bother them.’”

Another Impromptus item is about the recent Greenwich Village bombers — Occupy types, who were busted. Earlier Greenwich Village bombers were Weather types — not busted. Well, busted in a way. They blew up the townhouse they occupied, as they were preparing to blow up (innocent) others.

In my column, I say, “One of this year’s bombers is Morgan Gliedman, the 27-year-old daughter of a prominent New York doctor. So beautiful, so privileged, so full of promise. How many lives over the centuries has extremist ideology ruined?”

A reader writes in, “Don’t forget that one of the 1970 bombers was the daughter of a distinguished New York lawyer.” Ah, yes, Leonard Boudin — the CP lawyer, if I can be blunt about it. His daughter is Kathy — still a heroine of the Left, paroled ten years ago.

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Responsibility for social welfare rests primarily with the Ministry of Culture and Community Development, but voluntary agencies play an ancillary role. The Ministry sponsors community development self-help projects, which are intended to involve the population in development schemes and to raise the standard of living. A social security system was introduced in 1967 and amended in 1985. This program provides old-age and disability pensions for employees of firms with five or more workers. Work injury benefits are provided for all workers and is funded by the employer.

Women are accorded equal rights, but tradition limits their exercise of them. Under customary law, women may not own or inherit property and are not entitled to custody of their children after divorce. The children of Ugandan women married to foreigners are not entitled to Ugandan citizenship. This stipulation does not apply to Ugandan men married to foreigners. Domestic abuse and violence against women is common. There are still reports of abduction and rape to obtain wives. Female genital mutilation is practiced by several ethnic groups.

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(NaturalNews) A screener who worked at the federal government's Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for 13 years has been fired after being charged with sexually assaulting women at LaGuardia Airport in New York City.

Maxie Oquendo, 40, had reportedly been luring women into bathrooms at the airport under the guise of performing "pat down" screenings in search of weapons. Instead, he was using the ruse as an opportunity to fondle women's private parts.

Reports indicate that Oquendo had been using TSA-approved language and protocols to take advantage of female travelers, telling them that he needed to "scan" their bodies and luggage for security purposes. He would then lift up their shirts, unzip their pants, and fondle them.

"She's clear," Oquendo would say after molesting his victims. "She doesn't have any weapons or knives."

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Unable to post the $3,000 bail required for his release, Oquendo now sits in jail awaiting a trial. The TSA has since fired him, releasing the following statement in defense of its culture of molestation, which has become incrementally more invasive post-911:

"TSA holds its employees to the highest standards. As such, we expect our employees to conduct themselves with integrity, professionalism, and with respect for the public we serve... TSA is working in close partnership with the Port Authority Police Department in support of this investigation."

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown announced Oquendo's charges, which include second-degree unlawful imprisonment, official misconduct, third-degree sexual abuse, and second-degree harassment.

"The defendant is accused of an egregious abuse of his position as a government screener at LaGuardia Airport to sexually victimize a young woman," Brown stated. "Such alleged conduct cannot, under any circumstances, go unpunished."

Why isn't the entire TSA being charged for regularly molesting airport travelers?

This is what happens when a government agency such as the TSA goes rogue and starts performing naked body scans and full-body pat downs in the name of "safety and security." How is the official TSA pat down process any different than what Oquendo is accused of doing to women traveling through LaGuardia?

If you've traveled through a U.S. airport recently, you probably already know that you're either going to have your naked silhouette put up on display for TSA screeners to ogle or you're going to have a screener's fingers run through your underwear and up your crotch.

This is official TSA policy, by the way, because every crevice of your body is a potential suspect that might be harboring bombs or firearms, which means an hourly-rate government employee has to run his or her hands all across it to diffuse the threat.

Perhaps the TSA is just trying to compete with former Subway spokesman and weight-loss poster child Jared Fogle, who was accused earlier in the summer of producing and possessing child pornography. Deviancy and perversion, after all, is what the TSA has come to be recognized as promoting.

Perhaps the TSA just wants to be recognized alongside sexual offenders like Josh Duggar, who recently admitted to acting "inexcusably" after being charged with molesting young girls, including his younger sisters.

"The fact that TSA pat down procedures now often involve screeners physically touching people's genitals is documented," reads one blog source that documents the extensive history of abuse by TSA agents at U.S. airports.

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Google Loses Top South American Exec to Facebook

    The poaching of good tech workers doesn't just happen in Silicon Valley -- it's now gone global.

    Facebook announced its new vice president of sales, Alexandre Hohagen, Google's former top executive in Latin America, reported the New York Times Bits blog. Apparently six years ago  Hohagen helped establish Google’s Latin American presence and in 2005 was named general manager of Google Brazil. He was later promoted to vice president of Google Latin America.

    Currently, Google's social network, Orkut, is tops in Brazil but Facebook is competing globally for users including in South America, India and Japan. Although Facebook is mum about its campaign in Latin America, most are assuming that it's after Brazil, one of the world's emerging economies, where Orkut is preferred 3:1 over Facebook.

    Because of ever-expanding social networks, if Google wants to stop its employees from jumping ship it will have to strive to keep all its employees -- not just American, but also Indian or Brazilian -- happy.


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Lincecum: Struggles Will 'Make Me Stronger' | NBC Bay Area

Lincecum: Struggles Will 'Make Me Stronger'

Tim Lincecum considers his current struggles "a test" of his confidence and ability as a pitcher.

    Tim Lincecum, who'll square off against Roy Halladay Monday night in the first game of the series against the Phillies, has struggled so far in 2012.

    Badly. To the point where we recently debated whether or not to panic about his performance. Lincecum's not panicking though, and he said that the struggles are "a test" and that they are "going to make [him] stronger."

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    "Maybe (it's) a magnified look at just trying to be humble," Lincecum said over the weekend, via Steve Kroner of the San Francisco Chronicle. "This game is very humbling. I'm not saying that's why this is going on, like I was getting too cocky. I think it's like a test, about staying even-keeled and being mentally strong, and I think this is what it is right now.

    "I think it's just going to make me stronger."

    Lincecum was particularly chatty on Saturday, something he attributed to his struggles, oddly enough. The ace believes when he's scuffling on the mound, it helps him to be "reflective" through the media and discuss the problems he's having.

    "I think it's just a form of, I wouldn't say venting, but just being a little bit more reflective on what you're going through," Lincecum said. "Being verbal with it for me helps me just kind of get it out there on the table so I know what I'm dealing with, instead of stirring around in my head, which is what happens to me a lot."

    That's actually sage advice for anyone, not just a superstar pitcher. But for someone who gets too caught up in the mental game on the mound -- and Lincecum admitted as much in the preseason, oddly enough against the Rockies, who later pounded him -- getting those thoughts out in the public can certainly help.

    Also helping? A strong performance against the best pitcher in baseball the past few years, Roy Halladay.

    "I know he's going to be pitching on his 'A' game and it just makes me want to be on my 'A' game even more so," Lincecum said. "Eliminating all doubts in myself, that's the biggest thing I can do. Just go out there and have confidence in my stuff because you see guys time and time again [having conviction] in whatever pitch they're throwing that day.

    "Whether it's 85 or 95 (mph), you've got to have commitment in it, and I think that's the biggest difference in having that mental edge."

    If Lincecum, whose velocity has been down lately, can show enough confidence to give the Giants a strong outing in a critical April matchup against the Phils, it'll go a long way towards helping everyone's confidence in the ace.

    And might mean that he can get some peace and quiet too.


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Traveling on Highway 17 About to Get Harder | NBC Bay Area

Traveling on Highway 17 About to Get Harder

Work on Highway 17 starts on Sunday.

    Caltrans is getting ready to start work on Highway 17 and it is going to lead to traffic nightmares.

    Crews will begin work on the highway between Summit Road and Lexington Reservoir Sunday according to Mr. Roadshow of the Mercury News.

    They're trying to rebuild drains on the three-mile stretch from Summit to just south of Bear Creek Road. Most of them have not be worked on since the 1940's.

    Crews will also make larger guardrails along the highway and new pavement will be installed to help drain water from the highway more quickly. There has been flooding trouble in the area in the past.

    The $18 million project is expected to take up to 18 months to complete.

    Work will mostly be done over night. Monday - Thursday, 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.; Friday, 10 p.m. to 9 a.m.; Saturday, 10 p.m. to 10 a.m.; Sunday, 9 p.m. to 10 a.m.

    Caltrans plans to close one direction of highway during work and shift traffic to the other side to keep one lane open in each direction.

    For more information, click here.


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Tiny PC Is Silent But Deadly | NBC Bay Area

Tiny PC Is Silent But Deadly

    How's a $300 full-HD media-playing PC sound to you?

    The big plus of this minuscule Habey BIS-6620 ultra-compact PC is its total silence, playing back 1080p video with no fans. For that price, though, you don't get a hard drive, but there's a place to plug CompactFlash and SD cards in the front, and there's a 1.8-inch internal hard drive bay inside. You can load up any flavor of Windows or Linux, too.

    It's not perfect. You'll need the 6620-II for a DVI output, because the base model has only VGA. And you might need to use one of its USB ports for outboard surround sound. If you can overcome those hurdles, though, it might be a kick attaching this to the back of your HDTV and using a real PC in your home theater instead of some crippled and restricted box.

    Here's a video, giving you proof of its smooth, hardware-accelerated 1080p playback:


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Is Your Extra Virgin the Real Thing? | NBC Bay Area

Is Your Extra Virgin the Real Thing?

It's a matter of purity

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    A group of prominent California restauranteurs and chefs is suing olive oil distributors and retailers following a UC Davis study that found many of the oils were not as pure as they were marketed.

    The brands in question include Bertolli and Rachel Ray.

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    The plantiff claims many makers of olive oils mislabel the product so they can jack up the price.   Instead of being pure, the oil is mixed with cheaper, poor-quality oil or are degraded by heat or age, said Daniel Callahan, a plaintiff attorney.
    The lawsuit specifically cites the Davis study that sampled a random selection and found that 69 percent of imported oils branded as extra-virgin did not meet international standards for the label. Ten percent of California oils sampled did not meet the standards.

    Back in April the U.S. Department of Agriculture in April adopted scientifically verifiable standards for nomenclature such as "virgin" or "extra virgin," with extra virgin considered the highest quality because it has the best flavor.
     The "extra-virgin" designation indicates that the oil was extracted without the use of heat or chemicals; is pure; satisfies a taste test; and falls within chemical parameters established by the International Olive Council.
    The suit filed this week in Orange County Superior Court seeks punitive damages, as well as reimbursement for profits made from alleged false marketing and advertising using the extra-virgin label. Joining in the lawsuit are former "Top Chef" contestant David Martin, several prominent Southern California restaurateurs and several home cooks.

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    The lawsuit, which seeks class action status, targets 10 major olive oil brands, including Bertolli, Filippo Berio, Carapelli, Star, Colavita, Mezzetta, Pompeian, Rachael Ray, Mazolla and Safeway Select. It also names 10 major supermarket chains and big box stores that allegedly marketed substandard oil under the extra-virgin banner, based on covert testing done by the law firm, Callahan said.

    The North American Olive Oil Association, which represents most olive oil importers, has conducted tests on its imported products and found problems with only 1 percent of samples, according to its president, Bob Bauer.

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    When the UC Davis study was released last month, Bauer questioned its objectivity because it was financed in part by California olive producers. Bauer did not return a message left Wednesday after business hours.

    The United States is the world's third-largest consumer of olive oil, 99 percent of which comes from foreign producers.

    The lawsuit comes as the U.S. Department of Agriculture prepares to adopt scientifically verifiable standards for nomenclature such as "virgin" or "extra virgin" in an effort to clear up concerns about labeling accuracy.

    The standards will be implemented in October, and are similar to those upheld by the IOC.


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High Schools Silence Bands for Freddie Fixer parade | NBC Connecticut

High Schools Silence Bands for Freddie Fixer parade

School department officials said the schools made their own decisions

    The Freddie Fixer parade might not include school bands for fear of violence.

    The problems with New Haven's Freddie Fixer parade continue. High school bands will not be creating music in the streets during  the May 16 event because of concerns about violence.

    "The decision to keep New Haven Public School bands out of the Freddie Fixer Parade was not a decision that came from NHPS Central Office. This decision came from individual band leaders at the schools, their principals and parents of students in the bands," Michelle Wade, spokeswoman for New Haven Public Schools, said in an e-mail. "Parents vehemently expressed their discomfort and concern with their students participating in this event."

    “They gave no clear explanation, and I think it’s a slap in the face of Dr. Fixer, who was involved with kids,”  Maurice W. Smith, president of this year’s Freddie Fixer Parade, told the New Haven Register.

    Smith has appealed to Superintendent of Schools Reginald Mayo and the school system’s director of music for an explanation beyond the “security concerns” that Smith said Maust gave him on the telephone when he asked for bands to take part in the event.

    Smith said the school bands were allowed to march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, where there were many arrests for disorderly conduct, and he doesn’t see why they are banned from the Fixer parade.

    Wade's e-mail said the schools and the school leaders are empowered to make those decisions themselves in the best interests of their students.

    The parade was canceled in 2008 when organizers expressed concerns about violence in the wake of several shootings during the weeks before the event.


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Fairplex Lays New Tracks -- Literally -- for an Old Engine | NBC Southern California

Fairplex Lays New Tracks -- Literally -- for an Old Engine

"Big Boy" is departing Pomona for a new life in Wyoming.

    LA County Fair
    "Big Boy," a steam engine that's called the LA County Fairgrounds home for over a half century, is headed for Wyoming. Step one? Build tracks out of the fairgrounds.

    If you visited the Los Angeles County Fair at any point over the last half century, you likely saw, ran over to, and were rightly wowed by Big Boy.

    Big Boy, after all, has been rather hard to miss. It's the steam engine that's called the Pomona destination home for some 51 years, a hulking mass of move-ahead metal -- and mettle -- that once pulled transcontinental freight during World War II.

    But Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 is headed for restoration in Colton and then on to a new home in Wyoming.

    Moving 605 tons of steam-engine power isn't simply as easy as thumbing through the phone book or calling a pal with a pick-up,  however. A railroad is being built for Big Boy in order to deliver the engine from Fairplex to a Metrolink station located on Arrow Highway.

    If you're suddenly having memories of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's short but effort-filled 2012 journey through the streets of LA, this is definitely different. There's no pushing a massive steam engine down the 10 Freeway to the nearest tracks, as visual as that might be.

    The railroad won't need to be all that long, however. A mile'll take Big Boy to Metrolink. Still, though, constructing a mile of new track for a single move is quite the undertaking, even if it isn't the shortest length of track in California. (That honor goes to Angels Flight in downtown Los Angeles.)

    While there's more to come regarding Big Boy's northerly trip to its new Wyoming digs, longtime fans can take heart: The fair says it'll be back for the LA County Fair's centennial in less than a decade.

    Which means that those brand new tracks'll be awaiting the steam engine's return visit to its longtime Pomona pad.

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Image: Prototype plastic from algae
A prototype algae plastic disc with 50 percent polypropylene.
updated 4/30/2010 7:00:21 PM ET 2010-04-30T23:00:21

Just imagine if all the plastic around us was made from algae. We'd have thoroughly green car parts, bottles, containers, keyboards. In several years, this could be real. A California-based company is currently putting their algae plastic prototype to the test.

A few years ago, Frederic Scheer, the founder and CEO of bioplastic maker Cereplast noticed that algae was getting buzz for its potential as a fuel source. About 18 months ago, he got the dry biomass leftover once the oil had been extracted and got to work.

Cereplast dries the biomass even further until it becomes a powder. For this stage of development, they're making a hybrid prototype. Organic ingredients and polypropylene or another traditional resin is mixed with between 35 and 50 percent algae powder using a proprietary process.

"It's exactly like a traditional material — fairly strong, presents strengths similar to the equivalent with starch-based materials," Scheer says.

He adds it also has a high heat tolerance. At first the algae plastic had a strong fishy smell, but the company has figured out how to get rid of that. Their goal is to bring the hybrid to the market by the end of the year, either November or December.

A version that's 100 percent algae — and entirely compostable — could be ready within three to five years. As it's developing the plastic, Cereplast is also determining how this plastic mix could be recycled effectively.

For me, 100 percent algae plastic would be a winner. Using algae wouldn't affect food crops the way other bioplastics made from corn and starches could if they were massively scaled up.

The process complements algae fuel production instead of competing with it. Scheer told me that artificially-grown high-yield algae crops can be harvested after two months. That's fast.

Even in small batches, the cost per pound of algae plastic is expected to beat out traditional plastics, too. Plus I'm a fan of materials that can be composted easily without any fine print. And hey, it already looks like grass.

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Corrosive Chemical Cleaned from Escondido Horse Arena | NBC 7 San Diego

Corrosive Chemical Cleaned from Escondido Horse Arena

Second phase of clean-up still underway

    Emergency crews responded to a hazardous material spill at this Escondido water treatment facility Monday.

    A cleanup crew has entered phase two of a massive clean-up effort in Escondido after 20,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide spilled from a water filtration plant Monday afternoon.

    At approximately 3:30 p.m. on Monday, a breach in one of the tanks caused the corrosive chemical to spill from a water filtration plant in the 3400 block of Valley Pkwy on by Dixon Lake, according to authorities.

    At about 5 p.m., the Hazmat crews entered the plant to evaluate the extent of the spill. According to authorities, the liquid had traveled down a paved roadway and then onto a dirt area where it was contained.

    On Tuesday, the City of Escondido reported that the NRC Environmental Services began to remove the sodium hydroxide that was released into the containment area, as well as the removal of the remaining solution left in the failed tanks.

    Phase one of the clean-up has been completed. The second phase involves removing some of chemical that spilled down a hillside by the Charros Horse Arena. Crews will have to remove dirt and plants from the area affected by the spill.

    There were no injuries reported, and no need for evacuation of the surrounding area. The substance did not spill into the reservoir.

    Sodium hydroxide – also known as “caustic soda” -- is a corrosive chemical which can cause severe burns if it comes in contact with skin, according to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

    An image of the tank with the breach is pictured right.

    The Hazmat teams were assisted by the Escondido Police and Fire Departments. The two are working together to develop a remediation plan for the affected area, according to the city of Escondido.

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