| Alarm failure delayed discovery of tainted water
The plant was not manned overnight Jan. 15, but plant operators have access to the facility remotely via computer. Once the problem was detected on Jan. 16, Arizona American shut down the plant and issued an alert that afternoon, though the firm's telephone-notification system did not initially reach most customers.
Takata said alarms designed to alert operators to a problem did not work.
"They had three alarms that should have triggered something was wrong. They did not, so that's what they're investigating," he said.
This is the second malfunction involving release of TCE from the same plant in the past three months. Takata called the pair of incidents "very severe."
"I think the public and elected officials are very outraged that this should happen," he said.
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