(Updated) Part of La. 182 west closed for 5 hours to clean diesel spill

La. 182 west from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to Cottonwood Street in Morgan City was closed about five hours Tuesday for while crews cleaned a diesel spill that occurred Tuesday, according to Morgan City police.

Police got a call at 10:28 a.m. Tuesday reporting the spill. The substance is believed to have been diesel, Capt. Teddy Liner said. Though there wasn’t a large amount of diesel on the highway, the spill stretched from Myrtle to Cottonwood streets, Liner said.

Police don’t know what who or what may have spilled the diesel onto La. 182.

The Morgan City Fire Department assisted with closing the west lanes of the highway while workers with the state Department of Transportation and Development cleaned the spill. The section of La. 182 was reopened to traffic at 3:40 p.m. Tuesday.