GRANTSVILLE — State environmental and local health officials are investigating nearly two dozen leaking barrels discovered near the Great Salt Lake after a report on Thanksgiving Day.

An orange-yellow sludge has been seen oozing from the steel barrels. They are sitting on private property right off Stansbury Island Road.

(Shelby Lofton, KSL TV)

Dave Noriega, communications manager for the Utah Department of Environmental Quality , said a hiker called its tip line Thanksgiving morning.

“They’d seen these barrels before,” Noriega said. “They said they hadn’t been leaking; there was caution tape around them, so they hadn’t reported them. They said they looked even official.”

Tooele County Health Department Public Information Officer Brent Peterson told KSL the barrels have been there f

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