Cleanup crews were still working on the shoulder of the north-bound lanes of Interstate 5 just north of La Costa Avenue this evening after a dump truck loaded with asphalt careened off the road this morning at 1 AM dropping 19 tons of asphalt onto the south bank of the Batiquitos Lagoon, according to a post on Sign On San Diego.
The spill had traffic backed up this morning all the way down to 5/805 split.
Robin Lewis, a California Department of Fish and Game scientist who specializes in spills, said crews dug as much of the hardened asphalt as they could from lagoon shore until the tide came up about 1 p.m. . . . “Right now it’s all under water,” Lewis said in mid-afternoon. He said the cleanup will resume about 7 p.m. and continue until the tide comes up again about midnight, but he hopes to finish the job this weekend.
[Link: Sign On San Diego]
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