Lycoming County Frack Truck Crash: 3,600 Gallons Spilled

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

September 27, 2012 | 12:28 PM

Here’s new information from the Department of Environmental Protection about yesterday’s Lycoming County fracking fluid spill:
Investigators say 3,600 gallons of treated frack water spilled out of the truck, which had the capacity to hold an additional 1,000 gallons. In addition to the mix of brine, salt and chemicals, 5 gallons of transmission oil and 2 gallons of power steering fluid spilled onto Route 44 in Watson Township.
The accident occurred near Pine Creek. It’s not clear how much of the fluid entered the waterway.