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Milky white water, half-dozen dead minnows, but no hazardous materials found

Posted at 2:42 pm July 12, 2013
By John Huotari 1 Comment

Hazmat Spill Oak Ridge Civic Center Creek

The Oak Ridge Fire Department responds to a possible hazardous materials spill on Thursday evening at a creek that flows through the Oak Ridge Civic Center. (Photo courtesy ORFD)

The water was milky white and there were a half-dozen dead minnows on Thursday evening, but the Oak Ridge Fire Department was unable to find any hazardous materials in a small creek that flows through Alvin K. Bissell Park in the center of the city.

“We couldn’t detect what it actually was, and we couldn’t find any place that it was introduced into the stream,” ORFD Chief Darryl Kerley said Friday.

Kerley said medium and larger fish in the area were okay and so was a snapping turtle. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: Alvin K. Bissell Park, chemical spill, contaminant, creek, Darryl Kerley, dead fish, discoloration, fish, hazardous materials, HazMat, minnows, Oak Ridge Civic Center, Oak Ridge Fire Department, ORFD, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Tennessee Department of Water Quality

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