Roseland Incident Response Update: October 13, 2025

Progress continues on the Roseland Incident Response. Through early Monday morning, we can report the following updates:

Liquid Recovery Totals:

**On Site (Oil and Water): 3,759,672 gallons

**On Site (Grease and Water): 9,996 gallons

**Tangipahoa River (Skimmer): 124,131 gallons

**Tangipahoa River (Marco Boats): 72,744 gallons

**Pond D-1 R1: 1,527,078 gallons

**Pond D-1 R2: 218,316 gallons

**Pond D-1 R3: 573,720 gallons

**Pond D-1 R3 (Rope Mop): 63,000 gallons

**Pond D-1 R4: 595,980 gallons

**Pond D-2: 1,330,455 gallons

**Pond D-3: 1,281,126 gallons

**Pond D-3 (Underflow): 30,240 gallons

**Pond D-4: 605,157 gallons

**Pond C-2: 68,460 gallons

**Hwy 10 Bridge: 154,980 gallons

**Hwy 10 Ditch: 232,260 gallons

**Hwy 10 Underflow: 5,922 gallons

Total: 10,653,237 gallons recovered to date

EPA continues on-the-ground outreach in Tangipahoa Parish, with updated times and locations for community office hours supporting residents affected by the Smitty’s Supply fire. See the times and locations for today. Stay tuned for the rest of the week’s office hours coming out later today! For more updates please follow: https://www.epa.gov/smittys-supply-fire

Recovery occurred at six recovery points on Ponds D-1, D-2, D-3, and D-4 overnight on Sunday. After decanting operations were completed, oil recovery operations began on Pond D-4.
EPA is using multiple skimmers to maximize efficiency in recovery, including felt drum skimmers and rope mop skimmers. There were 17 skimmers operating overnight.
An open water area of approximately 50X50 was observed for the first time on Pond D-3.
A total of 13 vacuum trucks operated overnight Sunday at the ponds for oily waste recovery. Total estimated volume of recovery based on 24 truckloads is 60,480 gallons.
The Facility Branch continued decanting operations at Pond D-4. Overnight crews decanted approximately 12,000 gallons from one frac tank.
On Monday, October 13, EPA will hold office hours at the Dollar General stores in Amite and Roseland.

The U.S. EPA South Central Region has updated the Smitty’s Supply Fire Hub site with water sampling results and data tables. The link to that site is available here >>> https://smittys-plant-fire-epa.hub.arcgis.com/pages/monitoring-and-sampling~7f3958a0521a45119d9666c32a24605c