The Lowell Sun
CHELMSFORD, Mass. — A tractor-trailer truck driving north on Route 3 ran over a metal object that pierced its fuel tank yesterday, causing about 70 gallons of diesel fuel to spill along the highway.
Fire Capt. Rick Rivard said some of the gasoline spilled into a storm drain, but a crew from Clean Harbors pumped it out of the drainage system before it got to a wetland.
The spill occurred on Route 3 north, about 2 miles north of Drum Hill, about 11:30 a.m., Rivard said.
Firefighters stopped the leak and used absorbent material to stop the fuel from spreading further than the roughly 500 feet it had already gone. Clean Harbors then cleaned it up.
Rivard said the truck driver noticed the spill almost immediately and pulled over. Crews closed one lane of the highway while the fuel was cleaned up.
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