A District Court judge in Seattle ruled that the railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) violated an agreement with the Swinomish tribe after a train derailed on the Swinomish Reservation in Anacortes.
When the train’s two engines left they spilled 3,000 gallons of diesel fuel, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. A day after the derailment, the EPA said that some of the nearby soil was contaminated.
“Crews have removed over 1,200 cubic yards of soil. Responders have also pumped out 3,000 gallons of contaminated groundwater found while excavating the soil. Crews will install groundwater wells to monitor for any migration of diesel from the spill site,” the EPA said in an update on the accident. BNSF is temporarily storing the contaminated soil until it can all be sent for disposal in a permitted landfill.
No spilled diesel has reached the shoreline of Padilla Bay, so there have been no impacts to wildlife, but the area remains boomed as a precaution.A freight train derailment in Anacortes early Thursday morning spilled about 3,000 gallons of diesel. The Washington State Department of Ecology tweeted about the incident around 6 a.m., saying that the Ecology and the Marine Spill Response Corporation were responding to the scene of the derailment on the Swinomish Reservation in Anacortes.Ecology & the Marine Spill Response Corporation are responding to a BNSF train derailment on the Swinomish Reservation in Anacortes. ~5000 gallons of diesel leaked at this time. Spill happened on a berm & most of diesel leaked on land side.
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