Colville Franklin Bluffs Incident
Unified Command
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- Location
- Mile 382.5 Dalton Highway, 31 miles south of Deadhorse, AK
- Time/Date
- August 24, 2018 at 01:00 am
- Spill Id
- 18399923601
- Product/ Quantity
- 1,779 gallons of diesel was released from the tanker into the environment. Of this, 1,413 gallons were recovered via vac truck recovery and an additional 93 gallons were recovered using absorbent materials. The volume of diesel not accounted for is 273 gallons.
- Cause
- A tanker truck owned by Colville Transport LLC left the road and rolled over. Causal factors in the truck rollover are not known at this time.
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