Salt Lake Tribune environmental coverage for Salt Lake City and the surrounding area.
A facility owned by Citation Oil & Gas Corp. released 163 barrels of crude oil into Dixie National Forest, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and the town of Escalante. And it’s happened before.
A spokesperson for the BLM wrote that “impacts have occurred within a heavily vegetated rocky canyon that is difficult to access” in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in email correspondence with The Tribune. The U.S. Forest Service did not respond to a list of questions from The Tribune about how the spill affected Dixie National Forest.
Citation will continue to work with the BLM, the U.S. Forest Service, the Utah Divison of Water Quality and the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining to clean up the spill. There are controllers that are designed to notify the company that the tanks are potentially about to overflow, but the controllers failed because of a broken wire, Redweik said.The combined oil and water overflowed the facility’s secondary containment, streaming through Dixie National Forest, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and the town of Escalante.
“Everything was working to get rid of all the fluids, so we were drawing a lot of power,” Redweik said. Citation has placed filter fences, absorbent booms and straw bales along the spill and at its end to sop up the oil and produced water. Crews also began digging up oil-contaminated areas and hauling the oil off.
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