Federal officials say clean-up efforts on a gasoline spill near the Lochsa River are going well.
Idaho State Police say a fuel tanker truck crashed on Highway 12 near Powell on Friday morning, causing a 1,500-gallon fuel spill into a ditch connected to the river.
Officials with the Environmental Protection Agency say much of the spilled fuel and contaminated soil and water was sucked up by a vacuum truck. Remediation workers for a private cleanup contractor placed absorbent material in the ditch and at the mouth of a culvert that connects the ditch to wetlands. The EPA says the clean-up work may wrap up in the next few days.
Meanwhile, the driver of the tanker truck sustained minor injuries and was treated at a Missoula hospital and released. (Lewiston Tribune, AP)
