Hazardous material spill closes Highway 70 for nearly 3 hours

Hazardous material spill closes Highway 70 for nearly 3 hours

Hazardous material spill closes Highway 70 for nearly 3 hours
clocke@sacbee.com (Cathy Locke)
Posted: 06/17/2010 6:52 PM


By Cathy Locke clocke@sacbee.com
Highway 70 was closed to all traffic for about three hours this afternoon because of a hazardous material spill.
Marysville police and firefighters were called to the 1500 block of B Street, part of Highway 70, about 12:33 p.m. after a chemical was reported leaking from a commercial vehicle. Police reported that a tank truck containing 1,500 gallons of aqueous ammonia was spilling the chemical onto the highway.
Nearby residents and businesses were evacuated as a safety precaution.
The tank truck had been traveling south on B Street when the driver noticed that the trailer he had been hauling had detached from the tank truck, according to a Police Department news release. After becoming detached, the trailer slid forward causing damage to a valve that protruded to the rear of the truck. The damage to the valve caused approximately 250 gallons of aqueous ammonia to spill onto the highway, police reported.
The tanker was being operated under the authority of the Tremont Group, based in Woodland, the news release said.
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