Acid leak at south side plant - 13 WTHR Indianapolis

Acid leak at south side plant

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INDIANAPOLIS -

Fire Department officials say up to 1,000 gallons of sulfuric acid leaked from a storage take at a chemical business near downtown Indianapolis.

City fire Lt. Bonnie Hensley says no one was injured from the leak that was reported about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, around an hour after a worker at General Chemical first noticed it.

Hensley says the acid was contained within a couple hours. She says that much of the sulfuric acid remaining in the 18,000-gallon tank was transferred into a tanker truck and other storage tanks in the industrial area just south of the city's downtown.

Officials say the leak was in a pipe leading from the tank.

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