Journal of Pollution Effects & Control
Open Access

Abstract

Management Process of Oil Spill in Water Plants

Sadek ME, Seheimy AE, El-Tokhy TT and Allah MA

The protection of the water intakes is very essential to insure the safety of the drinking water, safe effort, time, increase the water purification system performance and to make the customer satisfied. One of the ways to make this aim on the land is taking an action to prevent the water pollution by spilled oil. Cairo Water Company activated a management program throughout the institution to provide a sustainable protection of the drinking water from the contamination by oil, throughout the protection of the water intakes and moreover the action will take place if any oil spread out into the clarifiers or filters. This report includes a scope on the sources of the petroleum pollution and the level of responses, also a documentation of an accident happened in 2008.