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McKenzie Watershed Emergency Response — a team of more than a dozen local, state, and federal agencies — “swiftly mobilized” to contain the spill near Belknap, EWEB officials said.
A tanker truck carrying 275 gallons of diesel and between 5,000 and 7,000 gallons of milk crashed Friday morning near Belknap Springs, spilling the liquids into a creek that flows into the upper McKenzie River.
Partners with McKenzie Watershed Emergency Response — including the Eugene Water & Electric Board, Upper McKenzie Fire & Rescue, Springfield Utility Board, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, and Region 2 HazMat — “swiftly mobilized” to contain the spill, according to an EWEB news release.
Officials are assessing the volume of materials that entered the creek, according to the release. They don’t expect the spill to impact drinking water due to “early containment.” The McKenzie River is the sole source of drinking water for the Eugene-Springfield region.
“We have many mitigation measures in place, and it would take a significant amount of time before any materials would travel all the way down the river to EWEB’s Hayden Bridge Drinking Water Treatment Plant,” said Susan Fricke, EWEB water resources and quality assurance supervisor. “We appreciate our partners’ quick response to get mitigation measures deployed.”
EWEB staff and Upper McKenzie Fire were first on-site to deploy “spill response mitigation measures,” including containment booms — temporary floating barriers designed to control spills and debris — to capture materials in the creek and river. Officials placed one across the Trail Bridge Reservoir, where spilled milk is visible in the water, according to the release.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is monitoring for impacts to fish, the release states. EWEB and McKenzie Watershed partners conducted their annual spill response drill at this location last fall, which prepared response teams for this incident, according to the release.
