BERKELEY SPRINGS, WV - Officials say judging from the stream's flow, it looks as if nothing ever happened. But they say it was only days ago when a Sheetz Convenience Store suffered a massive fuel spill killing fish and other wildlife in a stream across the street.
"There was an equipment malfunction underground," says Twila Carr of the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Program. "So when the tanker truck was filling the tanks they had an overflow problem. The petroleum went underneath the ground and went directly into Warm Springs Run."
Local crews built dams on Monday downstream to contain the gas.
Carr says the clean up was done quickly enough that the contamination did not spread as far as the U.S. Silica Plant.
"Everything was taken care of very quickly and it could not have gone more smoothly as far as any type of environmental hazard," says Carr.
Carr says the problems underground have been taken care of, and the Sheetz Convenience Store is back to normal.
"There was an equipment malfunction underground," says Twila Carr of the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Program. "So when the tanker truck was filling the tanks they had an overflow problem. The petroleum went underneath the ground and went directly into Warm Springs Run."
Local crews built dams on Monday downstream to contain the gas.
Carr says the clean up was done quickly enough that the contamination did not spread as far as the U.S. Silica Plant.
"Everything was taken care of very quickly and it could not have gone more smoothly as far as any type of environmental hazard," says Carr.
Carr says the problems underground have been taken care of, and the Sheetz Convenience Store is back to normal.
