Federal officials have confirmed some diesel fuel has leaked into Tuttle Creek Reservoir after a fuel cell broke loose from a dredging barge at Tuttle Creek Cove Sunday due to high winds.
Tuttle Creek Cove is located near the southwest edge of the reservoir, approximately two and a half miles north of the dam in Riley County. The area features a campground and boating ramps.
Caleb Snider, Operations Project Manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Tuttle Creek and Milford Lakes, said containment booms are in place around the tank and hazardous-materials crews are using absorbent materials to collect diesel that reached the surface.
“They are actively going around the rest of the cove area looking for places that may have leaked before that containment was in place and cleaning those up as they find them,” he said. “That work is ongoing.”
