The EPA turned a fuel spill into the Clearwater River into a goat fuck this past Saturday as well.

A truck tanker hit a rock in the roadway and overturned. The spill was around 1500 to 1700 gallons. Crews from the trucking company and other agencies were on scene quickly with the equipment, people and resources to clean the spill before much of the fuel could seep into the river.

Then the EPA shows up and tells everyone they cant do anything until several studies are completed.

KAMIAH - The initial work to contain a diesel fuel spill following an accident on U.S. Highway 12 near here is complete, but it will likely be at least a week if not longer before full-scale remediation gets underway.

That's a frustrating time scale for Gary Cantrell, one of the principals of Orofino-based Atkinson Distributing, which owns the truck involved in the accident.

"It won't take long to dig it out if they would just let us get started," he said. "To me, it's more important to get at it and keep it from going into the river."
But the EPA isn't having any of that until they wrap the entire operation with an appropriate amount of red, government issued, tape:


By late Thursday afternoon, fuel began leaching into the river, but a sheen was not visible Friday morning.

Earl Liverman, an on-scene coordinator from the EPA, said there is about 1,500 to 1,700 gallons of fuel in the soil beside the highway and on the banks of the river. He worked with a team that included representatives from several state, federal and tribal agencies at the scene Friday to develop a strategy to remove the contaminated soil.

"We began to develop the plan to enable Atkinson to come in here and clean up the product," he said. But before that work can start, several steps, ranging from securing water quality permits to completing archeological assessments and soil testing, must be taken.
Understandably, people in the area are pretty upset with the idiots from the EPA. They rank right up there with the TSA.