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              <p>Federal investigators said Wednesday they've seen no signs that a Houston-area chemical plant that flooded and partially exploded during Hurricane Harvey considered moving its highly unstable compounds offsite as a precaution.</p>
              
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              <p>Much of Arkema Inc.'s facility in Crosby, just outside Houston, was placed into the 100-year flood plain in 2007. But its emergency response plan, revised as recently as 2016, offers little direction for containing flood waters.</p>
              
              
               
              
              
              


              
          
              <p>A copy of the plan reviewed by the Associated Press says simply that &quot;care shall be taken to be sure water is kept out&quot; of buildings. A log Arkema kept of workers' efforts to safeguard the plant didn't mention relocating its organic peroxides, which are used in a range of products from plastics to paints.</p>
              
              
                             		
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              <p>The safety board is one of several federal, state and local agencies investigating. Arkema, along with its France-based parent company, also faces lawsuits from first responders and residents who say they were sickened after being exposed to toxic substances released in the fire and explosions.</p>
              
              
               
              
              
              


              
          
              <p>As Harvey dumped record-setting rain last August, Arkema's plant lost power. Backup generators, sitting just 2 feet above ground, were engulfed by rising storm waters. Refrigeration systems ultimately failed, leading organic peroxides to destabilize and catch fire.</p>
              
              
               
              
              
              


              
          
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              <p>&quot;Our Crosby site has never had flooding anywhere like what we saw in Harvey, since we purchased the property in 1960,&quot; Arkema spokeswoman Janet Smith said Wednesday. &quot;Even during Tropical Storm Alison, which caused severe flooding in Houston, we were able to drive trucks around our Crosby plant.&quot;</p>
              
              
               
              
              
              


              
          
              <p>Sutherland and the board's lead investigator, Mark Wingard, said the agency was still reviewing several facets of the incident, such as how well Arkema warned the public about the smoke's health risks. Neither sharply criticized the company during the news conference.</p>
              
              
               
              
              
              


              
          
              <p>The lesson from Harvey may be that manufacturers like Arkema can no longer look to the past when planning for accidents, they said. Changes in the frequency and severity of storms may mean that government flood maps or companies' worst-case scenarios are out of date.</p>
              
              
               
              
              
              


              
          
              <p>&quot;No one has a crystal ball,&quot; Sutherland said, &quot;but we don't people to be lulled into a false sense of thinking that the plan they have today — that they may have done a year or two or three years ago — is still going to be adequate.&quot;</p>
              
              
               
              
              
              


              
          
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              <p>In the last decade, state and federal regulators have penalized Arkema's Crosby plant multiple times. Arkema failed in June 2006 to prevent unauthorized emissions during a two-hour warehouse fire. In February, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Arkema more than $90,000 for of 10 serious safety violations found during an inspection.</p>
              
              
               
              
              
              


              
          
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