Manners Park is Currently Closed due to contamination from a\u00a0suspected fuel leak from the nearby train depot.\u00a0 According to Board president Marlane Miller fuel has leaked into the pond from the nearby train depot.\u00a0A company is enroute to work on cleaning up the mess but it is unclear how long this will take to clean up the mess\u00a0but as of right now the park is closed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Norfolk Southern owns the Train Depot, and there was six feet of water mixed with fuel oil. According to Miller the water was pumped straight into the storm sewer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Taylorville Fire Chief Matt Adermann says it is still\u00a0unclear at this point what caused the leak but they have kept the leak to just the north pond.\u00a0 He says that everyone needs to wait until the EPA finishes their investigation to find out what caused the leak.\u00a0 Chief Adermann says there is no threat to any persons that live near the park, but people are asked to avoid visiting the park to allow the workers to do their job.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is a breaking news story.\u00a0 Stay tuned to Taylorville Daily News for the latest on this breaking story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manners Park is Currently Closed due to contamination from a\u00a0suspected fuel leak from the nearby train depot.\u00a0 According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67716,4,450,52619,67721,67724,67722,14251,451,9562,5629,14250,67725,67723,67715,3,67717,67714,67720,67718,40465,67697,67707,67698,67700,67705,67712,67699,67702,67704,67708,67713,67711,67701,67703,67706,67709,452,453,67710,67719],"class_list":["post-520833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-assumption","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-central-illinois","tag-christian-county","tag-drug-arrest","tag-drug-bust","tag-envisionwise","tag-headlines","tag-hillsboro","tag-illinois","tag-linkedupradio","tag-meth-arrest","tag-meth-bust","tag-moweaqua","tag-news","tag-nokomis","tag-pana","tag-ramsey","tag-shelbyville","tag-sullivan","tag-taylorville","tag-taylorville-arrests","tag-taylorville-daily-news","tag-taylorville-daily-newspaper","tag-taylorville-illinois-arrests","tag-taylorville-illinois-local-news","tag-taylorville-illinois-newspaper","tag-taylorville-illinois-obituaries","tag-taylorville-illinois-police-blotter","tag-taylorville-illinois-sports","tag-taylorville-local-news","tag-taylorville-news","tag-taylorville-newspaper","tag-taylorville-obituaries","tag-taylorville-police-blotter","tag-taylorville-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tornado-sports","tag-tower-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520833","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=520833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}