spill

A truck burst into flames and spilled a bunch of lemons that it was carrying across I-70 yesterday, no injuries reported...except for the lemons.

An Environmental Protection Agency iinvestigation found that the company did not have an adequate emergency response plan in place.

The leak occurred when a storage tank collapsed on May 29.

They also question whether the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is providing adequate oversight of it.

They say some wetlands were affected, but not any sources of drinking water.

Guille says the byproduct could contain chemicals, but it's mostly just water.

Snow, combined with sustained winds of more than 30 mph and gusts around 60 mph, hampered the cleanup process.

The slightly radioactive sludge came from a uranium processing facility in Wyoming where Cameco mines the nuclear fuel.

Spokeswoman Wendy Owen says it was equipped with monitoring equipment that failed to detect the leak.