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Roseburg Drums

 
Site Contact:
Richard Franklin
On-Scene Coordinator

(franklin.richard@epa.gov)

Site Location:
1940 NE Newton Creek Road
Roseburg, OR 97470
 response.epa.gov/roseburgdrums
NRC#: 1241373

On 3/29/2019, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) discovered an oil spill discharging from drums and a burn pile onto soil, a nearby highway, and toward Newton Creek. ODEQ has estimated the volume of oil, a diesel and motor oil mix, at 200 gallons or more. ODEQ requested EPA assistance for the spill, and an EPA On-Scene Coordinator then opened the OSLTF and issued a Pollution Removal Funding Authorization (PRFA) to ODEQ for response and removal actions. ODEQ has mobilized state oil spill contractors to the site to conduct appropriate removal actions.


Aerial map of site and spill flow path Oil source area and drum Oil drum and spill source area Oil saturated soil at site Discharged oil in highway catch basin Oil sheen in drainage pathway to creek Oil in drainage pathway to creek Oil in drainage pathway to creek with sorbent pads Oil and sorbent boom in drainage pathway to creek Oil in drainage pathway to creek Manual oil removal work by ODEQ contractors in drainage pathway to creek Final sorbent boom set across drainage pathway to creek Newton Creek (no oil in creek)