U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

HTTPS

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock () or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Aliceville Train Derailment

 
Site Contact:
Jordan Garrard
On-Scene Coordinator

(garrard.jordan@epa.gov)

Site Location:
Aliceville, AL 35447
 epaosc.org/alicevilletrain
NRC#: 1065208, 1065206

At around 0:00 local time the morning of Nov 8, 2013 a train carrying crude oil derailed south of Aliceville, AL causing up to 23 cars to be derailed. Many of the cars caught on fire and several of them were breached. OSC Jordan Garrard was deployed to the scene to work with ADEM and the RP to conduct oversight of the cleanup operations.


Oil in containment along the East side of the rail bed. Oil bleeding from the West side of the rail bed Containment booms and absorbent materials on the West side of the rail bed Oil bleeding from West side of rail bed Oil bleeding from the ballasts on West side of rail bed Dec 2 Aerial Image Aerial Image Aerial Image Aerial Image Aerial of Derailment of 11/10/13 Aerial of Derailment of 11/11/13 Aerial of derailment on November 9, 2013 Fire fighting set up. Frac Tank of water. Foam Tank. Portable pond and pump. Bank washing operations. Absorbent boom sets. Example of damaged to the rail cars. Fire in the ballast under a partially full rail car. Crew successfully extinguished the fire. Fire extinguishing operations. Fire crew attaching a burning rail car with Alcohol Resistant Fire Fighting Foam (ARFFF) Limited fish kill. Rail car in the swamp with oiled water. Rail car partially in the swamp with oiled water. Multiple sets of absorbent and hard boom. Re-Railing a full tank car that partially left the track. Containment boom with burning rail cars in the background as the incident progresses into the evening of Day 2. Containment boom with burning rail cars in the background. Removing the oil for the banks and pushing it to a collection point. oiled slough area at the south end of derailment oiled slough area at the south end of the derailment Railcars at the south end of the derailment absorbent boom placed at the concrete weir at the north end of the slough oil recovery in the slough at the north end of the derailment Containment boom Unnamed tributary of Lubbub Creek at County Highway 2 Containment boom and absorbent booms based downstream of the derailment Workers cooling rail cars Crude Oil in wetland area to the eastside of the rail line Crude oil in the wetland / pond to the west side of the rail line Derailment Crude Oil in the pond to the east side of the rail line Crude oil cars on fire Crude Oil tanker cars on fire Aerial photo of the derailment
For additional information, visit the Pollution/Situation Report (Pol/Sitreps) section.