From: Channel 7 KATC
By Sarah Chaffin, Digital Executive Producer
By Alexis Rogers, Reporter
VILONIA (KATV) -A truck spilled 15 tons of drilling fluid after it overturned on Highway 64 in Faulkner County Wednesday morning.
According
to Vilonia Emergency Management Director, Keith Hillman, the accident
happened around 5 a.m. The incident occurred on the Highway 64 westbound
bypass at Highway 107 near Vilonia.
“The guy went to sleep. The
dump truck - I don't know how they haul that stuff - they overturned and
everything just came out in it,” Hillman said. “He had a dump truck
full of what they call 'fracking oil' that overturned. He went across
the barriers there and through the median and overturned and spilled his
load.”
Hillman said the M&M Environmental Oil Field Services
truck was headed to a reclamation plant in El Paso. It took emergency
crews more than 7 hours to get the contents of the truck off the
highway.
“It was like a real thick molasses, but a whole bunch of
it all across the whole road,” Hillman said. “It is a lubricant that
they use during the fracking process. It's mainly water, dirt and a
little bit of oil. It stinks a little bit, but there's no harm.” MORE
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