Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While making a routine tank change, Geribo said, he was tightening a valve on the transmission line and detected a slight leak...
Frank J. Geribo, of B&G's utilities division, called the incident a "fluke" and dismissed as "completely untrue" an account given by another Harvard worker who said the leak resulted from a faulty chlorine gas line which had been allowed to deteriorate into a dangerous state of disrepair...
Marciano declined to elaborate beyond saying that the leak resulted from a "mechanical failure of some sort...
After the leak increased, Geribo said other Harvard workers called Cambridge firemen and warned participants in an early-morning swimming program to leave the building. Geribo said he remained in the tank area and eventually "capped the leak...
Geribo's account clarified an earlier University statement on the gas leak, which said only that a standard safety test during the tank changing "disclosed a slight leak, and before procedures were completed, a release of chlorine began...