Personnel at Alyeska Pump Station 1 discovered oil leaking into the station's booster-pump building on Saturday morning at 8:15, according to Michelle Egan, a spokeswoman for Alyeska.
Even though the pumps were not essential since the plant is in a scheduled refueling shut down, and plant operators even moved a portable pump into the threatened building in case the regular pump had been submerged, the sense was that things were amiss.