Mexico is cleaning up a large chemical spill in the northern region of the state of Sonora, south of Arizona. It’s the second hazardous spill in the area in just over a month.
Mexico’s environmental protection agency is attending to the emergency after a tractor trailer carrying tankers of sulfuric acid overturned on a highway on Tuesday.
Mexico says approximately 3,000 gallons of the chemical were spilled onto the asphalt and more than 600 feet of unpaved road in the mountainous region of the state.
The agency says it’s still assessing the extent of the environmental impact and will take the necessary remediation efforts once it has done so.
The spill occurred this week near Cananea, a Sonoran mining city around 30 miles south of Sonora-Arizona border.
The accident comes just over a month after a nearby train derailment spilled more than 15,000 gallons of sodium hydrosulfide near the Arizona border.
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