8,000-plus gallons of spilled gasoline a threat to Yukon tributary, EPA says

Published: May. 7, 2024 at 4:54 PM AKDTFAIRBANKS, Alaska - A gasoline spill near milepost 77 on the Dalton Highway merits a federal response, a May 1 on-site Environmental Protection Agency investigation found.

But the follow-up investigation discovered “evidence of fuel, with visible sheening, impacting an un-named tributary to the Ray River which directly feeds into the Yukon River,” according to an EPAThe agency then issued a “notice of federal interest” to Helzer and took joint command over cleanup, contracting excavation services to remove all the soil affected by the gasoline.

DEC Northern Region On-Scene Coordinator Kimberley Maher said the spill is troubling both in terms of its magnitude and contents. “We don’t want migratory birds coming and landing in a pond that’s covered with gasoline sheening,” she said. “That will impact those birds.”

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