A fuel spill at Breakneck Creek in Adams Township is being cleaned up with an absorbent boom that stretches across the creek. There are several booms laid in by the Adams Area Fire District Tuesday evening. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle 08/10/22

ADAMS TWP — County officials and a private environmental cleanup company are working to address a diesel leak into Breakneck Creek in Adams Township.

The leak was discovered Tuesday around 6:30 p.m. near the intersection of Hutchman Road and Clay Avenue.

Adams Area Fire District chief Tim Llewellyn and Butler hazmat specialist Scott Hoffman said the leak originated from an off-road diesel fuel tank on a commercial private property.

“There was a privately owned fuel cell that failed and released a yet-to-be determined quantity of fuel,” Llewellyn said. “This was a container on private property that failed, most likely due to age.”

The spill flowed into an unnamed tributary running along Hutchman Road that eventually empties into the Breakneck Creek, he said.

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