MILLBURY, Ohio — UPDATE: According to the Ohio Department of Transportation, information was provided that identified a likely responsible party. That information was passed along to the Ohio EPA.
The Lake Township Fire Department is requesting the public's help identifying a flatbed truck that spilled human waste on SR-795 and I-280 early Tuesday morning.
The Ohio Department of Transportation shows the truck, which has a white cabin and was pulling a load that the waste appeared to spill out of, was tracked traveling eastbound on SR-795 at East Broadway Street to the site of the spill. The truck was last seen on ODOT cameras headed west on West Alexis Road from I-75.
Lake Township fire chief Barrett Dorner said there was "toilet paper and different indicators that it was human waste."
According to Lake Township fire, the spill started near the railroad crossing near Sunoco on SR-795, continued up the overpass and then onto I-280.
Video of the incident can be viewed here. Anyone with information is asked to email fire@laketwp.com or call 419-837-4026.
"We're not sure where it was coming from, where it was going," Dorner said. "We just have the little snippets to figure out what kind of vehicle it was and just hope that the public can give us more information to go on."
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, which assisted LFTD and OEPA in the response to and cleanup of the spill after it was discovered by Lake Township police shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday, said there is no threat to the safety of the public and no ongoing risk.
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