Buckeye Road May Remain Closed Through Thanksgiving

Township Manager Dan DeLong tells Upper Milford Supervisors that Buckeye Road will probably remain closed for a while following Sunday night's fatal accident, fuel spill.

Township Manager Dan DeLong told the Upper Milford Board of Supervisors at Monday night’s meeting that Buckeye Road likely will remain closed through the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. The road has been shut down since a Sunday night collision between a fuel tanker truck and a passenger car that left a Macungie man dead and resulted in 2,500 gallons of fuel oil spilling onto the roadway. Cleanup efforts are under way, and large quantities of contaminated soil have been and continue to be removed under the supervision of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), DeLong reported. “They’re doing as much as they can do,” he said. “It’s a major problem.” Supervisor Robert Sentner emphasized that Buckeye Road is a state road under the …

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Mary Terp (Ebby)

7:58 am on Friday, November 16, 2012

I need to take my car into the shop on tank farm road on Monday. Anyone know if that is going to be possible? I guess I could just call them . . .   more ›

Part of Buckeye Road Still Closed

A portion of Buckeye Road was still closed to through traffic today (Wednesday) due to a fatal crash Sunday that caused a fuel spill.

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