Currenta disposal center
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 2 '30 " N , 6 ° 58' 10" E | ||
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North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
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| Type | Hazardous waste incineration plant | ||
| fuel | Hazardous waste | ||
| owner | Currenta GmbH | ||
| operator | Currenta GmbH | ||
| Start of project | 1966 as a Bayer AG plant | ||
| Website | www.currenta.de | ||
The Currenta disposal center , also known as the Bürrig disposal center , is a hazardous waste disposal facility operated by the Currenta company in Leverkusen and was established in 1966 as part of the Bayer Group.
The center of the area includes a waste incineration plant that has been in operation since 1967, a communal sewage treatment plant with a 31 m high digestion tower from 1980 and the landfill on the old Bürriger dyke. For their construction, the courses of the waters of Dhünn and Wupper were relocated to the north in the 1960s .
In 2011, the chemical park operator Currenta decided to build a slag processing plant together with the municipal waste disposal company Avea . In addition, an application was made to increase the capacity utilization of the hazardous waste incineration plant from 80,000 tons per year to 120,000 tons. There is, inter alia. Burned hexachlorobenzene .
location
The center is located in Leverkusen - Wiesdorf near Bürrig , north of the Chempark (formerly Bayerwerk) and the A 1 and A 59 motorway junction ( Leverkusen-West motorway junction ) and the Dhünnaue . The first residential buildings in Bürrig to the east and Wiesdorf to the south are less than a kilometer from the company premises. The Merkenich district of Cologne is about 1.5 kilometers to the west on the other side of the Rhine. Leverkusen-Rheindorf connects to the north .
Accidents
On July 15, 1980, liquid waste exploded in the delivery bunker for the hazardous waste incineration. An excavator operator was killed and eight employees were injured, some of them seriously. Several thousand window panes were broken in the neighboring districts around Bürrig. The destroyed facility failed for a long time after the accident.
On January 7, 2010, a fire broke out in the container store with production waste. It could only be extinguished after several hours and the ash particles from the fire rained down on the northern Rhine village. As in the 1980 accident, there was allegedly no danger to human health or the environment.
On July 27, 2021, several containers with mixtures of different solvents caught fire. There was a massive explosion. 2 people died and over 30 were injured.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tank farm in the Bürrig disposal center exploded ; chempark.de, July 27, 2021, accessed on July 28, 2021
- ^ Leverkusen, Currenta disposal center. Retrieved July 28, 2021 .
- ↑ RP ONLINE: Leverkusen: Currenta is expanding in Bürrig. June 17, 2011, accessed July 27, 2021 .
- ↑ Explosion at a chemical site: This is the Chempark Leverkusen. WDR, July 27, 2021, accessed on July 27, 2021 .
- ↑ a b Ralf Krieger and Rebecca Lessmann: Explosion at the hazardous waste incineration: huge cloud of smoke over the city. July 27, 2021, accessed July 27, 2021 .
- ↑ https://www.landtag.nrw.de/Dokumentenservice/portal/WWW/dokumentenarchiv/Dokument/MMD09-226.pdf;jsessionid=6F276DB272464A9932B020844275059C
- ↑ RP ONLINE: Bürrig: The cause of the fire is still unclear. January 8, 2010, accessed July 27, 2021 .
- ^ City of Leverkusen: press releases. Retrieved July 28, 2021 .