Truck Dumps 1,700 Gallons Of Oil
Photo by Scott Wintermute
Substance spills into creek, soil on Maricopa Highway
By Lenny Roberts
Seven drums, each carrying 300 to 400 gallons of diesel fuel, spilled from a large truck on Highway 33 at mile marker 40.84 before dawn Friday morning after the truck ran off the highway. According to reports, 1,000 gallons spilled into Adobe Creek and 700 gallons spilled into the soil near the creek.
California Department of Fish and Game crews were dispatched to the scene, along with Ventura County HAZMAT teams.
More information will be posted here as it is learned.
UPDATE 02-02-09:
According to The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services most recent report, the driver of the truck fled the scene after the accident. The truck had not been registered for several years and the CHP was unable to find the owner of the truck or the driver. Based on that, the US Forest Service, in consultation with USEPA, has opened the federal oil spill pollution clean up fund to pay for the clean up of Adobe Creek.
To read the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services report, click here.
This is just as much about some illegal driver transporting illegally as it is about water or pollution. Cops should be out there doing the jobs we pay them for, like keeping these violators off the streets
Poison a lot of people a little.(not too obvious)
Causes small holes in your brain similar to alzheimer’s.
Darn!! and I thought I was doing everything I could to keep Ojai water on the outside of my body!!!
Its not the taste you have to worry about!
They fluoridate the water here too.
When you shower fluoride is inhaled and absorbed threw your skin.
Ojai’s tap water is just straight up gross. Not only does it leave a nasty aftertaste, but it, at times, is so heavily chlorinated you’d think you just opened a bottle of bleach and took a whiff!
watch out for leaching plastics
They should do an Ojai poll, Do you drink our water out of the tap = yes , who dosen’t = No. INstead of all these other stupid ,, Superbowl,…
This is going to be one more reason to buy bottled water.