Urgent Intervention Service

In different areas and activities of the industrial sector, incidents occur daily that generate different types of contamination: machinery breakage, leaks and escapes, system overflows, etc.

By means of the Urgent Intervention Service we carry out a previous evaluation where we detect and analyze those critical points that are susceptible to become a source of contamination, in order to try to eliminate them or minimize as much as possible the effect they may cause, through the application of a battery of preventive measures specific to each client.

Among the assistance activities carried out are the following:

• Spill prevention and control in different industries.
• Soil treatment to avoid infiltrations to subsoils and others.
• The prevention and control of discharges with the monitoring of pipelines, purification systems and discharge points into watercourses, port areas or public sewers.

Once we know the points with maximum risk in the facilities, we can size and locate the materials that will be necessary to optimally address a possible emergency that could be generated in the facilities.

In this way, we not only offer the proposal of recommendations to implement and optimize the operation of the facilities, but also the protection of the environment and industrial safety.

In the maritime-port area, government authorities, companies and other potentially polluting entities must be prepared to respond quickly to possible contingencies that may occur.

Any contamination inside the port or in its area of responsibility will require an immediate response, and therefore, the activation of its Maritime Interior Plan, against accidental marine pollution.

Thanks to the adhesion to the Maritime-Port Urgent Intervention Service of Inteco Astur, this response will be given and will offer compliance with the requirements set by the current legislation in force, RD 1695/2012 by having a Maritime Interior Plan.

After different polluting episodes in the coastal area, our company is specialized in the Integral Recovery of the coastal strip in the different areas that make it up: sandbanks and rocky areas, defense structures and artificial dikes…

Depending on the magnitude of the emergency, the different guidelines for action and recovery are designed, always taking into account the provisions of the current legislation in force:

• Protection of the coastal strip and the different sandy areas that form it by installing oceanic booms.
• Manual recovery of sandy areas.
• Recovery of defense structures: ports and breakwaters.
• Decontamination of different affected areas taking into account the different zonations.
• Manual remediation of ecologically valuable sites.
• Environmental Monitoring and Control Program.

Inteco Astur is in continuous training in the field of Environmental Emergencies, participating in drills, practical schools and workshops, and keeping as updated as possible in the application of new techniques.

Likewise, we are an Approved Training Center by the Merchant Marine to teach professional maritime training courses, within the Integrated Center of Professional Training of the Sea, in Avilés.