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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Lee Enterprises

Friday, October 16, 2009 10:32 PM CDT
Clay spill prompts 4-hour cleanup

City public works crews and firefighters assisted with the removal of wet clay Thursday evening from a three-block stretch of south Douglas Drive.

Assistant Chief Richard Edwards of the Charleston Fire Department said contractors had been removing the clay from a construction area at Charleston Federal Savings & Loan, 800 W. Lincoln Ave., and hauling the clay to property owned by Unique Homes off of south Douglas Drive.

Some of the wet clay “sloshed” out of the truck and created a layer of “sticky goo” on the roadway that coated the tires of vehicles that passed through it, he said.

Public works crews and firefighters spent more than four hours helping remove the wet clay. Edwards said they needed to repeatedly alternate between scraping the clay with heavy equipment and spraying the clay with water.

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NeighborLady wrote on Oct 17, 2009 1:01 PM:

" Will the people who caused this expense for the city be fined? Or does the city just pick up that expense? "

Harry Potter wrote on Oct 19, 2009 11:28 AM:

" Just ask the good folks of Mattoon who paid for the mess Wortman made with his infamous boiler slag fiasco. "