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Colorado Deportment of Ilualth <br />• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency <br />April 30, 1979 <br />Page 1'wo <br />containment pond in the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quar- <br />ter, Section 29, 1'ownsh.ip 5 t7orth, Range 86 h~esC. As a result of <br />extremely heavy runoff from rapid snowmelt, surface water had en- <br />tered Che pond and displaced the lighter oil upward throuyh a <br />crack in the protective berm surrounding the pond. ApproximaCCl}- <br />300 to 500 gallons of oil flowed from the pond into tlic drainage <br />area of Foidcl Cr.eck. <br />D URATIOId Ot' '1'II I? EVF: I7T, I17CLUD_1 t7G EXA C'I' DA TITS N7D TII4ES, AND <br />S'PEPS 1'A NEN TO hII T1GA Tls ;I[E 1; I'I'GCTS OL'' AiiD CL E:I [1 UP TIIE DIS- <br />CHAf2GE <br />h1r. Rick Brown, EFC's General Surface Manager, notified h1r. <br />Alan Czarnows}:y, Environmental Engineer, lace in the evening of <br />Tuesday, h]arch 20, 1979, that he had seen several small globs of <br />oil floating in Foidel Creek and had also observed an oil sheen. <br />P1r. C~arnowsky began an inspection and attempted to locate the <br />source. This initial investigation ivas largely fruitless because <br />of the snow and ice and the late hour, which combined to obscure <br />almost entirely any view of Foidel CreeY.. <br />On Wednesday, tlarch 21, a detailed field inspection was made <br />to locate the source. Because one of the likely sources was the <br />oil containment pond, t]r. Jac]: Huff, Cline Superintendent, deepened <br />• the trench from the shop to the pond with a small ba c}:hoe. In <br />addition, hlr. Fluff lead a tanker truck begin pumping out of the oil <br />pond. These efforts resulted in abatement of the source of the <br />spill after approximately one day. <br />At about this same time, tlr. Derry Ferguson, Planager of <br />Planning and Engineering, notified me of the spill and I commenced <br />verbal notification of the appropriate authorities. <br />EFC personnel immediately constructed two dams on Foidel <br />Creek out of straw and hay bales, steel fence posts, six-inch PVC <br />pipe and baling wire. One dam ufas constructed just beloc•7 t}Fe oil <br />pond and tl7e other slightly farther down stream. The straw dams <br />backed up the oil. on the stream, but the oil sheen persisted. t:o <br />globs of oil were observed on the strean after the bale dams were <br />constructed. <br />On Thursday, t1arcli 22, EFC personnel constructed several ad- <br />ditional straw-filter dams along Foidcl Creek, tlr. hike Zopf, <br />Director of the Routt County Department of Environmental Health, <br />visited the site the morning of t4arclF 22 to inspect the oil spill. <br /> <br />