{"id":233769,"date":"2026-07-02T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233769\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:19:07","slug":"dep-confirms-1000-gallons-of-oil-leaked-into-pgh-waterway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233769\/","title":{"rendered":"DEP confirms 1,000 gallons of oil leaked into Pgh. waterway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is monitoring the impact of a leak this week in Lovedale. <\/p>\n<p>The DEP confirms that about a thousand gallons of D-3 oil leaked from a tanker truck, into Wylie Run, which is a tributary to the Mon River.<\/p>\n<p>D-3 is described as a binding agent similar to glue that solidifies quickly. It sank to the bottom of the waterway. <\/p>\n<p>A clean-up crew is removing affected plant life and other contaminated areas. <\/p>\n<p>he agency says a fish kill was observed. <\/p>\n<p> Three Rivers Waterkeepers defers to the DEP and the Fish and Boat Commission but describes the number of dead fish as &#8220;significant.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is monitoring the impact of a leak this week in Lovedale. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[602,65391,73,75,74,100969],"class_list":["post-233769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-dep","tag-oil-spill","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-wylie-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}