Another Spill

[kegill@halcyon.com (Kathy E. Gill)]

 OPPT NEWSBREAK           Weekend Update 20-21 April 1996
          Today's "Toxic News for the 'Net" brought to you by the OPPT Library

  "Chemical Truck Overturns, Forces Evacuation."  Washington Post,   21
April, B5.
               A tank truck carrying 3,500 gallons of a mixture of water
               and sulfuric acid overturned on an I-695 exit ramp in Anne
               Arundel County, Md., Saturday, pinning the driver in the cab
               and forcing the evacuation of nearly 1,000 residents of two
               nearby housing developments.  Approximately 20 gallons of
               the liquid leaked from an overflow tube on the top of the
               tanker and workers from the Maryland departments of the
               environment and transportation were able to stop the leak
               quickly.  The toxic liquid is used to harden steel and was
               being hauled to the Blue Plains sewage treatment plant in
               Washington, D.C.