Crews stop oil spill from Garfield drain

The Washington Department of Ecology and staff from the town of Garfield have contained a spill of used crankcase oil that was flowing from a storm drain into Silver Creek, according to a press release issued Tuesday by the department.

The Palouse Conservation District was conducting water sampling Monday near Third Street in Garfield when they saw thick, black sludge coming out of a culvert from the storm drain system. A Garfield crew quickly placed hay bales and sheets of tin to build a catch basin at the storm drain outflow.

An Ecology spill response team placed an absorbent boom in the are...