Seventy gallons of weed killer leaked out of a truck at an intersection on DeKalb’s north side Thursday morning.

A Great Lawn truck with a cracked tank spilled about half its load of herbicide at the intersection of North First Street and Hillcrest Drive between 9 and 10 a.m., DeKalb Assistant Fire Chief Reuben Nelson said.

“I think a motorist honked his horn and told the driver ‘You’re leaking,'” he said.

“It was a broadleaf herbicide, so it wasn’t really toxic,” he said. “They use it to kill dandelions.”

Nelson said firefighters kept the herbicide from going down the sewers and into the ground water supply. “Nobody was hurt and we didn’t damage the environment,” he said.

The firefighters used clay to absorb the spill, Nelson said. He said the department would decontaminate the area and dispose of the protective suits firefighters wore.

e said the Farm Services Corporation sent a truck to transfer the rest of the herbicide from the Great Lawn truck.