Caterpillar Plant Spill Closes River To Traffic In Illinois
10 February 2009 - 3:18AM
Dow Jones News
About 6,000 gallons of oil sludge spilled into the Des Plaines
River on Sunday from a container at Caterpillar Inc.'s (CAT)
hydraulics plant near Joliet, Ill., the company and U.S. Coast
Guard officials said.
A three-mile section of the river, a major industrial waterway
southwest of Chicago, was closed to commercial traffic while the
spill was being cleaned up. Caterpillar said the sludge was in
wastewater that overflowed from a container.
Federal officials estimated 65,000 gallons spilled from the
container and 6,000 gallons flowed downhill into the river.