A volunteer cleanup crew pulled roughly 1,300 pounds of trash from the Brisbane River, adding to a pattern of large-scale debris hauls reported across Southeast Queensland waterways in recent years.
Crews responding to the massive Feb. 25 fire at J&K Salvage have recovered 13,000 gallons of oily water and removed 90 tons of oily debris and soil in the area of the scrapyard, according to the U.S.