{"id":78998,"date":"2016-08-15T07:28:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T12:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=78998"},"modified":"2016-08-16T06:29:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T11:29:46","slug":"city-spill-dumps-gasoline-into-storm-sewer-town-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/08\/15\/city-spill-dumps-gasoline-into-storm-sewer-town-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Gasoline spill clean-up could take months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>for the VW independent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Officials believe they have pinpointed the source of a sizable gas leak at Tyler\u2019s Short Stop on East Main Street in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79000\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-79000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Gasoline-spill-photo-8-14-16-550x351.jpg\" alt=\"This absorbent boom was one of several placed in Town Creek in an attempt to mop up gasoline that spilled into the creek on Sunday. (Scott Truxell\/for the VW independent) \" width=\"330\" height=\"211\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>This absorbent boom was one of several placed in Town Creek in an attempt to mop up gasoline that spilled into the creek on Sunday<\/strong>. <em>(Scott Truxell\/for the VW independent)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cA hole in an underground gas line just beyond the pumps appears to be the cause,\u201d Van Wert County Emergency Management\u00a0Director Rick McCoy said.<\/p>\n<p>It was first believed that 500 gallons of gasoline leaked into the city\u2019s storm sewer, with some of it making its way into Town Creek. But McCoy says it\u2019s likely at least 1,000 gallons leaked from the hole, and \u201chad been leaking for some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s heavy rain may have pushed the gasoline from the storm sewer into the creek.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Washington Street and Central Avenue began smelling gas Sunday afternoon, prompting an investigation by city workers, who were able to trace the leak back to Tyler\u2019s Short Stop.<\/p>\n<p>Absorbent booms were placed in Town Creek to successfully contain the gasoline within the city limits.<\/p>\n<p>Clean-up crews from Fort\u00a0Wayne, Indiana, and Cincinnati continue to vacuum gas from the sewer system and the creek.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It was initially believed clean-up efforts could take several days, but \u201cif it\u2019s really saturated into the ground, full clean-up could take months,\u201d McCoy said early this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Barricades remain up at several city streets, but McCoy said any danger of an explosion is now over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/for the VW independent Officials believe they have pinpointed the source of a sizable gas leak at Tyler\u2019s Short Stop on East Main Street in Van Wert. \u201cA hole in an underground gas line just beyond the pumps appears to be the cause,\u201d Van Wert County Emergency Management\u00a0Director Rick McCoy said. It was first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 20:57:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}