Madison firefighters prevented diesel fuel from getting to Lake Mendota Thursday night after the fuel leaked into a storm sewer and then into a creek that empties into the lake. The spill was reported at 4:58 p.m. Thursday at the Walnut Street Heating Plant, 505 Walnut St., according to a report from the fire department.
An unknown amount of diesel fuel leaked when a fuel truck was pumping the fuel into a tank at the heating plant, which provides steam and chilled water to buildings on the UW-Madison campus.