About 600 litres of oil leaked from a hole in an above-ground tank, which was traced to a home on Snowdrop Avenue.
Most of the home-heating oil that leaked into the Colquitz River last week is believed to have been cleaned up, but protective booms will remain in place for the rest of the week.
The first reports about the spill came on Friday, with residents noticing a strong fuel smell around Hyacinth Park on Marigold Road. He said they were also looking into areas where oil might have been trapped, which meant flushing out culverts. In 2020, fuel seeped into the river, which is home to cutthroat and coho salmon, in a string of similar incidents. One in January in Gorge Creek, which connects to the Colquitz, was linked to a residential oil tank, while another one in April was linked to a drainage pipe. In a third incident in May that year, oil flowed from two storm drains upstream from a pedestrian bridge on the river in Cuthbert Holmes Park.
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