A stinky situation: solid waste spills out of truck in Ammon, closes area for cleanup

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Published astatine 12:43 pm, June 5, 2024 | Updated astatine 12:43 pm, June 5, 2024

AMMON — Part of a thoroughfare successful Ammon has been closed disconnected owed to a coagulated discarded spill that stretches astatine slightest a mile.

An unpleasant odor is very beardown on Sunnyside Road adjacent Crowley Road.

Bonneville County Fire District No. 1 Ammon Division responded to nan spill connected Wednesday astatine 10:30 a.m.

“There was an EIRSD dump motortruck afloat of discarded from nan processing works and it was driving down Sunnyside erstwhile it deed nan railroad tracks successful beforehand of Walker Produce. The gross came open…and started dropping stuff. The driver pulled complete to effort and get nan gross reset,” Ammon Fire Marshal Keith Banda said.

EIRSD stands for Eastern Idaho Regional Sewer District. Banda said nan motortruck was walking eastbound connected Sunnyside and was headed to nan dump.

EIRSD president Brian Powell told EastIdahoNews.com that nan spill is not earthy sewage.

“It’s already gone done superior curen and screening. Think of it much for illustration it was manure,” he said.

It could beryllium a substance of what is flushed down nan toilet, what gets put down nan garbage disposal, aliases what gets washed disconnected astatine a car wash, but has already gone done nan basal treatment.

Powell said they person checked successful pinch nan Idaho Department of Environmental Quality successful Pocatello and it was wished it’s not harmful.

Pictures taken by EastIdahoNews.com shows emergency vehicles blocking nan roadworthy on pinch thick, brownish worldly connected nan ground. Banda pointed to what was connected nan crushed and said that was nan discarded that was spilled.

“Right now, nan metropolis of Ammon and nan occurrence district…are watering it down to get it disconnected nan roadway,” Banda added. “It’s going to return a while. We person sewage to fto it dry. It will make nan roadworthy other slick if we don’t fto it dry.”

The Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office is providing postulation power and has closed portion of Sunnyside and Crowley. Drivers should beryllium cautious and alert of detours.