Cleanup Underway After Leak of Substance Into Local Waterway

(SOME OF THE ITEMS PLACED IN A LOCAL CREEK AT EVERGREEN AND OCEOLA TO SOAK UP AND SLOW DOWN THE FLUID RELEASED INTO THE WATERWAY FROM A LEAKING TANK AT PILOT TRUCK STOP)

Cleanup continues after a leak of diesel exhaust fluid from Pilot Truck Stop on Effingham's north side into a local waterway.

Effingham Fire Department Captain J.R. Nieman said the leak was discovered either Saturday night or early Sunday morning. The fluid made its way to a small creek that runs south of Pilot under the interstate and travels south under Evergreen Avenue and along Park Hills Subdivision.

(YOU CAN SEE AND SMELL THE FLUID IN THE WATERWAY HERE AT EVERGREEN AND OCEOLA)

There's enough water in the creek to keep the fluid moving downstream. Cleanup crews have placed bags in the creek to soak up the fluid and slow its progress downstream.

Meanwhile, Nieman said crews are still working to stop any more release of the fluid from the tank at Pilot, including vacuuming the fluid out of the underground storage tank under the parking lot to the east of the truck stop.

(THIS IS THE SCENE OF WORK AT PILOT TRUCK STOP)