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Accidents happen such as this fuel truck spill at Athens International Airport.  When 8000 gallons of Jet A fuel is spilled into the environment the effects could be catastrophic.  The first response is to prevent the fuel from catching fire.  If enough of the OSE II was in stock at the airport at the time of the accident then the fire crew could have used it to stabilize the fuel to prevent it from burning .

Instead of using the OSE II the fire crew used foam to prevent fire.  Now the site has both Jet A fuel and foam to contend with.

The fuel had spilled on the ground and flowed downhill into a concrete lined water retention pond.

The cleanup problem was to detoxify the fuel which had soaked into the soil and the fuel which flowed into the adjacent holding pond and mixed with water.  The goal was to bring both the water and the soil below the acceptable levels for the contaminate.

Once the OSE II was on site it was mixed 50:1 with water to treat both the Jet A fuel and the foam.  The mixture contained 300 gallons of OSE II and 8000 gallons of water.  A fire hose was used treat the affected areas.

After 3 to 4 weeks the entire site was found to be below the acceptable contaminate level.