A cleanup continues into a spill of several thousand barrels of wastewater injection fluid into Polecat Creek in Grant County near Medford. The spill by Special Energy Corporation of Stillwater involved about 18,000 barrels according to Matt Skinner, spokesman for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
“There is no doubt it got into Polecat Creek, but how much, at this point, it’s impossible to say,” said Skinner in an interview with The Enid News.
Pond Creek eventually feeds the Salt Fork River and the leak might have been caused by a malfunctioning underground valve.
Don Terry, a spokesman for Special Energy maintains the leak never entered Pond Creek or the Salt Fork River because the company immediately set up a capture pit to stop the toxic fluid before it entered Pond Creek. It appears the leak was really into a dry creek bed.
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