Sturgis baby formula plant floods, closes 11 days after reopening for first time in months

[Theowl32]

Sturgis baby formula plant floods, closes 11 days after reopening for first time in months
by TJ Blystone | News Channel 3
Thursday, June 16th 2022

STURGIS, Mich. —
The hits keep coming for Abbott Nutrition's largest U.S. baby formula factory.

The company's Sturgis facility is closed again after thunderstorms and heavy rain overwhelmed the city's stormwater system and flooded some areas of the plant, Abbott Nutrition announced late Wednesday night.

Sturgis baby formula plant floods, closes 11 days after reopening for first time in months

The hits keep coming for Abbott Nutrition's largest U. S. baby formula factory. The company's Sturgis facility is closed again after thunderstorms and heavy rain overwhelmed the city's stormwater system and flooded some areas of the plant, Abbott Nutrition announced late Wednesday night. "This...

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Don't worry folks. Nothing to this. Nothing to see here. It's putin and Trump's fault. That's all we are supposed to know about the food ahortages.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

....because man madeup global climate warming change. Everyone know that the 120PPM of CO2 added since 1850 generates, at most .002F temperature change, so, yeah, global climate warming change

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Sturgis baby formula plant floods, closes 11 days after reopening for first time in months
by TJ Blystone | News Channel 3
Thursday, June 16th 2022

STURGIS, Mich. —
The hits keep coming for Abbott Nutrition's largest U.S. baby formula factory.

The company's Sturgis facility is closed again after thunderstorms and heavy rain overwhelmed the city's stormwater system and flooded some areas of the plant, Abbott Nutrition announced late Wednesday night.

Sturgis baby formula plant floods, closes 11 days after reopening for first time in months

The hits keep coming for Abbott Nutrition's largest U. S. baby formula factory. The company's Sturgis facility is closed again after thunderstorms and heavy rain overwhelmed the city's stormwater system and flooded some areas of the plant, Abbott Nutrition announced late Wednesday night. "This...

wwmt.com

Don't worry folks. Nothing to this. Nothing to see here. It's putin and Trump's fault. That's all we are supposed to know about the food ahortages.

So now you CT morons think that Biden is making it rain too much so that he can starve the babies.

Damn you all are fun.

 

[Billy_Bob]

Sturgis baby formula plant floods, closes 11 days after reopening for first time in months
by TJ Blystone | News Channel 3
Thursday, June 16th 2022

STURGIS, Mich. —
The hits keep coming for Abbott Nutrition's largest U.S. baby formula factory.

The company's Sturgis facility is closed again after thunderstorms and heavy rain overwhelmed the city's stormwater system and flooded some areas of the plant, Abbott Nutrition announced late Wednesday night.

Sturgis baby formula plant floods, closes 11 days after reopening for first time in months

The hits keep coming for Abbott Nutrition's largest U. S. baby formula factory. The company's Sturgis facility is closed again after thunderstorms and heavy rain overwhelmed the city's stormwater system and flooded some areas of the plant, Abbott Nutrition announced late Wednesday night. "This...

wwmt.com

Don't worry folks. Nothing to this. Nothing to see here. It's putin and Trump's fault. That's all we are supposed to know about the food ahortages.

Depending on machinery that is damaged or food components destroyed, it will take roughly a week to clean and sanitize the plant. Two weeks to get it back on line.

I guess they should have made the drainage systems more robust... Another failure of engineers to build for the 100 year flood levels at a minimum.

 

[Resnic]

Depending on machinery that is damaged or food components destroyed, it will take roughly a week to clean and sanitize the plant. Two weeks to get it back on line.

I guess they should have made the drainage systems more robust... Another failure of engineers to build for the 100 year flood levels at a minimum.

Where I work if water hits a food convenience belt it has to be shut down, swabbed and sent out for testing and then the line has to be cleaned and sanitized, usually takes 3 to 6 days. Water can revitilize some bacterias. It's a big deal if even a overhead water line leaks a little. We constantly monitor the relative humidity and dew point in the facility to insure we don't have condensation build up on the production floor. Especially on the ready to eat side because once the food is out of the ovens there is nothing to kill any bacteria until it is packaged and sealed.


Planning for drainage is hard though unless you go to insane lengths. At some point it's all going to go south though. Even landscape changes made outside the facilities property can effect their storm drainage, maybe they were getting close to the time to jet their lines and they got overwhelmed. Dozens of outside factors can come into play you can't plan for. When you build and design a facility you do so to protect it as best you can to minimize incidents, if you tried to design it based on every possible outcome you'd never get it built or would triple the cost.