On August 12, 2013, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) notified US EPA of an earlier spill that OEPA responded to on August 8, 2013. The location is at the intersection of Riverside Drive and Indianola Avenue in Lakewood, Ohio. Oil was seeping from the base of an approximate 50 foot cliff into a drainage channel in the Cleveland Metroparks. The seep is approximately 200 feet from the Rocky River. OEPA had responded and placed booms and used sorbent material to capture as much of the free petroleum material as possible. The United States Coast Guard (MSU Cleveland, District 9) had responded with the OEPA over the weekend and subsequently informed OEPA that the release was not in their zone of responsibility. US EPA inspected the site on August 13, 2013 and observed petroleum material in the drainage channel at the location described by the OEPA. OEPA requested that Cleveland Metroparks personnel report the release to the national Response Center and on August 16, 2013 the report was filed (NRC Report #1057319).
