Cleanup efforts are underway in Rio Blanco County after a tanker involved in a single-vehicle accident spilled approximately 220 barrels, roughly 9,250 gallons, of crude oil into the West Douglas Creek along Colorado Highway 139.<\/p>\n
The spill occurred Monday between Rangely and Grand Junction, according to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency press statement sent Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cCrews are currently on site with vacuum trucks to remove as much oil as possible while minimizing impact to the local ecosystem. The spill has been successfully contained\u00a0within West Douglas Creek,\u201d according to the statement.<\/p>\n
The federal environmental agency said spill impacted a U.S. Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment, adding that the \u201cresponsible party is providing alternative drinking water for the cattle on the allotment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The EPA said there is \u201cno estimate when cleanup will be complete. A damage assessment will occur after\u00a0initial\u00a0cleanup\u00a0to\u00a0determine\u00a0any remaining impacts to natural resources.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleanup efforts are underway in Rio Blanco County after a tanker involved in a single-vehicle accident spilled approximately…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-404756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}