Lester Leatherberry, an environmental specialist with the Department of Environmental Conservation, said some fuel went into soil near the house and some also may have gone to the local sewage treatment plant.
The spill happened last week when a Taku Oil Sales delivery truck driver pumped fuel into what he believed was a pipe leading to a 650-gallon buried tank at a downtown residence, Leatherberry said.
When the gauge reached 700 gallons, the driver checked to see why. He found he had been pumping fuel into a pipe that led directly into the basement of the house.
Leatherberry said the company mopped up about 40 gallons of fuel from the basement, but it's not clear where the other 660 gallons went.
There are drains in the basement and part of it has a dirt floor, so some of the remaining fuel went into the porous soil under the house, Leatherberry said. But investigators are not finding the large concentrations of fuel they would expect in the soil.
The Juneau Empire
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