Crude oil spills into Iowa river after freight train derailment
A train derailment has spilled 230,000 gallons of crude oil into an Iowa river, resulting in a disaster declaration from the governor and a massive clean-up operation.
The oil spilled into the swollen Little Rock River in Lyon County when 32 oil tanker cars derailed Friday. The train's operator BNSF said 14 of the derailed cars had leaked oil, the Lyon County Daily News reported.
Crews spent Saturday containing the spill and building a temporary road to move equipment to the crash site to make it easier to remove the piled-up train cars and advance the cleanup, the Sioux City Journal reported.
“They’re working diligently to get that done,” Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said after meeting local authorities involved in the clean-up.
She issued a disaster proclamation Saturday for Lyon and three other counties in response to rain-fueled flooding and the train derailment, the paper reported.
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I cleaned up oil spills on water for over a decade, crude oil is called a "Persistsnt Product" in spill terms.
It's not going to be easy to even get most of it cleaned up.
What gets me is the fact that they derailed on a bridge/dike over water, why didn't some one check the crossing when they knew it was flooding right there?.
I wouldn't think they normally ignore the fact that the tracks might be washed out where it happened, somebody wasn't paying attention.
