Crews from the Environmental Protection Agency and other cleanup crews spent Monday night mitigating a spill that occurred after a tanker truck, carrying 85-hundred gallons of gas, overturned on Highway 29 in Gwinnett County and spilled into a nearby creek.
Gwinnett County Fire Lt. Eric Eberly tells WSB they're concerned about wildlife. Many firemen reported seeing many salamanders and lizards that died following the spill.
As of Monday night, about two thousand gallons had been recovered from the creek.
On Tuesday morning, the Georgia Department of Transportation will be out on the stand to repair part of the road damaged.
"The Georgia DOT is going to be back out on the scene to replace about 175 feet by 40 feet of roadage that damaged due to the spill," said Eberly.
Both drivers were hurt but not seriously, though he says it could've been a lot worse.
"Thankfully, the CSX train engineers that were on board the train near the accident, they had stopped the train just prior to reaching the incident because they knew that it was a disastrous scene. If they would've gone through that close to the tractor trailer that was already overturned, we feel pretty confident that it would've led off. Because of all the sparks that trains on the rails go by that could easily have ignited the tractor trailer on fire," said Eberly.
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