UPDATE: According to Lawrence County DES Chris Cox, On December 24 2019 Lawrence County Emergency Management along with the Department of Environmental Protection responded to the Fallsburg area in reference to an oil leak.
Residents had reported they heard an explosion near the creek that leads into the historic Fallsburg camping grounds area and that several animals had been injured in the resulting oil leak.
Cox said in a prepared statement that the leak had already been contained at the source and the amount of oil that had leaked into the creek is still unknown at this time (Friday, December 27).
He said Evergreen AES arrived early that same morning and started the cleaning process; a river boom system was put in place to catch the oil that was leaked into the creek and absorbent pads were also placed in the creek to contain the oil.
On Dec 26 Lawrence County Emergency Management and Evergreen AES returned to remove and inspect the absorbent pads and river boom system clean up of the oil is going good and will take several days to complete, Cox said in the release.
He added that there was no explosion anywhere in the area and that what people were hearing was bird hunters shooting.
Bird hunters? These weren’t wild ducks, and is this duck season? What about the damage and polluting the stream; is that OK Mr. Cox? Looks like some are already covering up for others, or that’s my best guess.
or maybe it’s Trump new food stamp rule starting to take effect
KAG, if you have nothing to say, why not say nothing?
Im a little confused. We dont know the source of the leak but yet the source has been contained and fixed? Am i missing something here?
The source of the leak was an oil well located in the Fawn Trailor Park near Fallsburg! I woke up my husband because of the gas smell and phone calls from others smelling the stench ! Bill went out looking for the problem and found it at the trailer park. He called it in to the authorities and the clean up began. The oil went through our Campground via Buck Branch into Blaine Creek! I have no idea why they don’t report it correctly.
Wanda M Cassady
It was from Phillip pigmons oil well at fawn court
I noticed ‘Piggy’s” post was on here first, then got deleted, then re appeared to get deleted again? I said in my prior post ” Looks like some are already covering up for others, or that’s my best guess.”? I’ll bet Piggy is a big shot around there, right? Did Piggo shoot the ducks too? I wonder if this post will now go away? It would prove my point, if it does!