Testing shows no heating oil made it into the Woodstock town water supply wells after a fuel truck rolled over on McDaniel Road May 8.
Out of an abundance of caution, the town briefly stopped pumping from the well closest to the Sawkill Creek and sent water samples for testing. Neither the town wells nor a nearby private well contained heating oil, town supervisor Bill McKenna said.
The Kingston Fire Department hazmat team deployed floating berms to catch oil that may have floated downstream.
Bottini Fuel, whose truck overturned, hired a remediation company to remove contaminated soil.
“So what they do is they have a sniffer and they keep digging down and they test the soils until it gets below a certain limit,” McKenna said. “At one point, though, they got a hit and they had to dig sideways into the hill where they found a big grouping of oil. All that oil-soaked fill was taken out. They did store it over at the landfill.”
The soil will be tested to determine what is in it, and then the company must engage a waste processing facility to accept it.
The town highway department has to replace an entire section of guardrail which the truck took out at the expense of the fuel company, McKenna said.
At the time of the accident, some 2300 gallons of fuel was on the truck. The DEC has confirmed that only 37 gallons had spilled.
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