Cold Weather Helps Keep Spilled Chemicals In Place At Richland Co. Derailment Site - KVRR Local News

Cold Weather Helps Keep Spilled Chemicals In Place At Richland Co. Derailment Site RICHLAND CO., N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The cold weather helped keep chemicals that spilled from a derailed Canadian Pacific train from spreading very far. Emergency Management Director Brett Lambrecht says with temperatures well below freezing, the leaked chemicals remained within about 100 feet of the derailment site south of Wyndmere. Liquid asphalt and ethylene glycol from six railcars mostly hardened and remained on the surface of the ground. Some propylene gas also leaked from a tank car that...