PITTSBURGH, April 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, United
States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) issued the following statement
to provide further updates relative to the process release at U. S.
Steel's Midwest Plant in Portage,
Ind., on April 11.
The company's statement follows:
"Overnight and throughout the morning, U. S. Steel continued
extensive testing on the repairs made at our Midwest Plant and
continues to monitor environmental compliance with all of our
systems. Recent sampling has indicated we are in compliance
with our water permit limits. We have determined all repairs
are safely working as intended. We have developed a
controlled and phased approach to a facility restart with extensive
input from the participating government agencies."
A controlled restart of operations at the Midwest Plant at this
time will allow U. S. Steel and participating government
agencies to conduct robust water and soil sampling while Indiana
American Water's intake remains closed and access to certain parks
and beaches remains restricted."
"U. S. Steel currently expects the controlled, phased and highly
monitored restart to begin later today. The process will
begin with a line-by-line restart of operations that do not use
chromium in their processes. U. S. Steel will be
taking samples from the facility every two hours. U. S. Steel and
participating government agencies will also be conducting
vigorous visual inspections and water quality monitoring at the
outfall and in the areas surrounding the outfall. If elevated
levels of chromium are detected, all operations will be immediately
shutdown. If all non-chromium-involved lines restart
successfully and sampling is acceptable, the lines that involve
chromium would be restarted in the same controlled, phased, and
highly monitored manner."
"Going forward, U. S. Steel and participating government
agencies will continue to monitor water at and around the
outfall. In addition, U. S. Steel has made enhancements to
the parts of the facility where the failure occurred and is
reviewing additional measures it can take to allow for earlier
detection of future issues."
"U. S. Steel is committed to the safety of our employees, to the
communities in which we operate and to protecting the
environment."
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SOURCE United States Steel Corporation