About 880 of the 1,650 gallons of oil spilled in Stanley Hall at UC Berkeley have been removed as of Thursday, according to campus spokesperson Kathleen Maclay.
After a tank overflowed in the basement of Stanley Hall, diesel fuel collected in the basement of the hall, some of which ended up in storm drains that deposit in Strawberry Creek. Oil has been spotted making its way down the creek, which flows through the city of Berkeley, and into the San Francisco Bay, where the stream ends.
Much of the fuel has been removed with vacuum trucks and absorbent pads and booms set up at various sites along the creek, according to Maclay.
No damage to wildlife in the creek has been reported, although campus officials say they are still evaluating the impacts of the spill.
Officials from the city of Berkeley, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Coast Guard and the California Department of Fish and Game all came to respond to the incident.
“Various agencies will be involved as long as it takes,” Maclay said. “We’ll continue to assess it every day and see how things look.”
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Why are you believing these people? Why are we treating UC any differently than we would a major corporation that spilled diesel into the creek/bay? Do your job, Daily Cal. Uncover what corners were cut, what UC did NOT do that would have prevented this catastrophe. Do your job!!!!!!!!!
Wow there are storm drains in Stanley Hall?
Does this mean that EPA, UC, EHS and others learned a lesson after the obvious design failures of Latimer Hall?