NINE emergency and environmental government personnel responded to an oil spill resulting from a leaking truck engine on Navy Hill road Wednesday night.
The Emergency Management Office yesterday said the operator of the truck had not been identified.
Ben Lieto, supervisor of EMO’s Recovery and Response Team, said the oil spill started from the area in front of the Rota and Tinian Guest House all the way to Advance Textile Corp. garment factory.
“We haven’t found the truck operator but we immediately covered the oil spill traces with manufacturer’s sand so that the roads would not be slippery. This would protect the vehicles and the passengers,” Lieto told Variety.
Lieto said the responding team arrived at the scene at around 9:30 p.m., and completed their task at around 12:30 midnight.
This reported visited the site yesterday and found sand stretching a few meters on the right side of the road, where there was also an ongoing road construction and expansion project.
The responding team consisted of five EMO personnel headed by its director, Rudolfo M. Pua, Lieto, David Chargualaf of the Division of Environmental Quality, two personnel from the Department of Public Safety and one personnel from the Department of Public Works.
War munitions found
In other news, EMO’s Recovery and Response Team recovered World War II ordnance in Tanapag on Monday afternoon.
Lieto said the discovered munitions included six pieces of mortar rounds 3 inches in diameter, and once piece of projectile that also has a 3-inch diameter.
“They were found at the residence of Jack Taitano of Tanapag at around 2:30 p.m. We immediately put them at the Marpi bunker,” said Lieto.
This is the first set of ordnance found on Saipan after the detonation of over 800 pieces of war munitions on Saturday at the Laderan Laguun cliff line south of the Marpi landfill project.
