Witnesses report seeing globs of asphalt binder that spilled into Montana's Yellowstone River during a bridge collapse and train derailment on islands and the riverbanks a week after the spill
when exposed to the cold water and officials said there was no threat to the public or downstream water supplies, officials said.“This stuff is not sinking in this water,” Peronard said Sunday. “It adheres really well to rock and we can roll it up like taffy on the sand.”
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality, the EPA and Montana Rail Link — the entities managing the cleanup — said more asphalt product was released Friday as a rail car was being removed from the river. “We should have plans in place for this and we should have learned our lesson in 2011,” she said, arguing that work to clean up the asphalt binder could have happened at the same time they were removing rail cars from the water.
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