Published: July 17, 2008 01:28 pm         

UPDATE – Heating oil spill cleared in Nanty Glo

Between 50 and 90 gallons of home heating oil got into a storm drain in the 1100 block of Caroline Street this morning after it escaped from a homeowner’s tank.

A small amount of the oil got into Blacklick Creek and into a wet bed of the borough’s sewer plant, Dave Shedlock, officer-in-charge for the responding Nanty Glo firemen.

Shedlock said that a nut on the tank apparently was loose, and the heating oil was able to drain from that area. The tank had been filled earlier in the day while the homeowner - whose name was not immediately available - still was in bed, he said.

The situation was discovered by a sewer plant employee around 8 a.m. Three officers from Cambria County’s hazmat team also responded to assist, Shedlock said.

The firemen were able to capture the oil from the creek, while borough workers cleared the oil at the plant, Shedlock said. The firemen returned to their station shortly before 1 p.m. today, Cambria 911 said.

     

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