A tanker truck that flipped and spilled fuel near an Old Snowmass subdivision in April likely didn’t do long-term damage to area groundwater.
The truck spilled 500 gallons of gasoline and about 20 gallons of diesel fuel near the Little Elk Creek subdivision on April 30th. Clean up crews initially found contamination but after drilling wells and taking samples in August, tests came back negative. Kurt Dahl is with Pitkin County.
"Fortunately we don’t have contamination of groundwater. That was the important piece we were concerned about initially. We think the (early contamination) was from the dig and we were probably getting some contamination as we were digging."
A final sample was taken last week and the results aren’t yet in. Dahl anticipates they will be negative.