Crews are working to clean up a fuel oil spill at the south end of Jackson Creek in the area of Townsend and Aylmer streets that was reported on Wednesday.
According to Brendan Wedley, Manager of Communications at The City of Peterborough, the city is working with the Ministry of the Environment and has immediately put in place environmental protection measures to prevent the spill from discharging into Little Lake, and retained an environmental consultant to investigate the source of the contamination as well as an environmental remediation specialist.
At this time the contamination is not discharging into Little Lake, and the water quality in Little Lake has been maintained.
Though Little Lake has been deemed safe, that wasn’t the case in 2018. In April of 2018 broken fire suppression line at the old General Electric plant, located on Park Street, had leaked polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB’s) into Little Lake.