I would have thought the regulations should address the possibility that a leak in one tank, particularly one that is not bunded, could also empty any others connected to it. That is simple enough to prevent with good design, but not if they are connected so as to effectively make them all one big container.
The regs just require that the bund can hold 110% of the volume of the tank. Whether the tank is above the bund, partially in it or completely enveloped by it, makes no difference to the bund's capacity.
If the tank was half in the bund and sprung a leak, the level in the tank would fall and the bund would fill, until the levels equalised, the bund it then containing it all ... even though part of what it is containing is also still within the tank.
not a lot. We were a bit scared. But all the diesel leaked had out. I think - its 20 years ago - that we certainly left a large hole in it for a few weeks first. We might have hosed it out with water too.
So today I called the number Boilerjuice says to call to talk to someone about what my options might be, since they seem to offer a service to get a tank installed. All I got was a mechanical voice that repeated and repeated that I should use the chatbot on their website, which told me the bot was not available. There's service for you.
Harlequin, whose tanks Boilerjuice wants to sell me, claim to offer free advice, so I tried to fill in their online form. The boxes for County and Postcode kept telling me that the phone number I had entered in those boxes (County and Postcode) was wrong. Well I hadn't entered a phone number in those boxes, had I. So I went back and entered a phone number in each of those boxes (County and Postcode) and only then could proceed to the next step. But then it wanted photos of the existing site so I gave up at that point.
Any skoolboy should kno that a 1100 litre bund can contain a 1000 litre tank and all its oil. Even if some of the oil escapes from the tank into the bund.
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