CROCKETT — Nearly five years after a fiery explosion at an East Bay fuel facility shut down one of the Bay Area’s busiest freeways and forced nearby communities to shelter in place, Contra Costa County officials have approved a plan that aims to prevent future disasters at terminals storing hazardous materials.
A subsequent investigation found that the blast at NuStar’s Selby Terminal was most likely caused by an electrical spark that touched off ethanol vapors, which triggered explosions that could be heard for miles, according to witnesses at the time, and created a fireball visible from nearby Interstate 80.
While the Crockett site can handle up to 3 million barrels of fuel, the destroyed tanks were only holding about 1% of their 200,000-barrel ethanol capacity at the time.
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