The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has contacted the city of Fort Worth to see if its services will be required to mitigate the effects of the oil spill cleanup underway at a water treatment plant in the east of the city.
The Fort Worth water department is using the Village Creek Drying Beds as part of an emergency response to a spill of 2,600 barrels of crude oil near Lake Arlington in early May.
The oil entered the Fort Worth sewer system and facilities at the Village Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, contaminating the microbes used to treat sewage, known as waste activated sludge. The drying beds are being used to allow the water to evaporate out of the sludge so the affected solids can be trucked away…