The Department of Environment is investigating a diesel fuel leak into a waterway off Grandview Avenue near Hickey Road. The city’s hazmat team was called in to clean up the spill earlier this afternoon. A dump truck overturned after colliding with a car around two o’clock spilling 200 litres of fuel—about 75 litres of which leaked into the ditch.
District Fire Chief William Johnstone tells CHSJ news crews damned the water around the spill so soil samples could be taken for analysis by the Environment Department. Both drivers were taken to hospital with unknown injuries.
