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Roxbury Street in Seattle’s White Center neighborhood reopens after oil spill

The spill took several hours to clean on Monday.
Credit: TEGNA

SEATTLE — An oil spill Monday temporarily closed all eastbound lanes of SW Roxbury Street between 8th Avenue SW and Myers Way S between White Center and South Park.

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) and the city’s public utility department responded to the area shortly before 10:45 a.m. and began safely cleaning the spill.

All eastbound lanes were open by 4:30 p.m.

SDOT did not provide any further information on what caused the oil spill.

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