East Hampton battery fire: two million gallons of water and no containment
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At a county meeting on the 2023 fire at the NextEra and National Grid battery site, officials said about 5,000 pounds of Novec 1230 mixed with some two million gallons of sprinkler water, which couldn't be held on site; PFPrA and PFOS later reached a public well field about half a mile away. The lesson for battery storage is that firewater runoff is a pollution liability, so ask whether a site has catch basins and a firewater containment plan, and check how pollution exclusions would respond. Source: East Hampton Star.