<div dir="ltr">Paul:<div><br></div><div>Barry is here at the University of Michigan here at Ann Arbor. </div><div><br></div><div>We have a large retention "pond" behind our building - I believe it was designed to hold all of the alcohol + a certain # of minutes of sprinkler flow. Design limitations including placing the facility along, or close to, an outside wall of the building, installing a new fire pump to more adequately service the fluid area, and dividing the space into multiple rooms to restrict the amount of alcohol in a given room were all included in our project.</div><div><br></div><div>Rich Rabeler, MICH</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Callomon,Paul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prc44@drexel.edu" target="_blank">prc44@drexel.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Can you tell us which institution you work for, and which city and state?<br>
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<i><a href="mailto:callomon@ansp.org" target="_blank">callomon@ansp.org</a> Tel <a href="tel:215-405-5096" value="+12154055096" target="_blank">215-405-5096</a> - Fax <a href="tel:215-299-1170" value="+12152991170" target="_blank">215-299-1170</a></i><br>
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<div style="direction:ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>] on behalf of Barry OConnor [<a href="mailto:bmoc@umich.edu" target="_blank">bmoc@umich.edu</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 30, 2016 10:38 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bentley, Andrew Charles<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nhcoll-l] Fire Marshall Regulations<br>
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<div dir="ltr">When our new collections facility was built a few years ago (converted warehouse), a fluid retention space was required.
<div>All the best! - Barry</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Bentley, Andrew Charles
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abentley@ku.edu" target="_blank">abentley@ku.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">In working closely with our fire marshal we were able to convince him that:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Such a scenario was highly unlikely given all the other mitigating measures we had in place and,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">That were such a scenario to occur the alcohol would be so dilute given the amount of water expelled by our fire measures as to not warrant any such
measures and the larger problems we would face if such a situation were to occur.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">As such we do not have any such retention pond and our door drains drain directly into the sewer system.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Yes, our HVAC system has inlets at roof level and outtakes at floor level at various locations on every floor.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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