News Briefs: Crews Cleaning Up Diesel Spill at Alaskan WWTP

Crews are working to clean up a diesel fuel spill at a wastewater treatment facility in Selawik, in the Northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska. A transfer operation from a city fuel tank to the plant’s tank was left unattended for about 7.5 hours before an operator was alerted to the spill, which was then reported to the Department of Environmental Conservation.“We know that there’s still 35,000 gallons approximately left in the tank following the release, and that source tank itself wasn’t damaged. It was an overfill due to transferring,” DEC Environmental Program manager Sarah Moore tells KOTZ News. “So we know