The mark of a good job? Not being to tell that anything ever happened, Lincoln County Emergency Director Tod Hartung said Tuesday, Feb. 18.

Speaking at the Lincoln County Commissioners meeting, Hartung said the job emergency crews put forth in regard to the Friday, Feb. 7 fuel spill in Walpole was commendable.

“The response was just amazing,” he said. “You would not have guessed that by Saturday or Sunday there had been a spill Friday.”

The clean-up crew included Newcastle and Bristol hazmat teams and emergency crews who used 35 bags of booms to contain and soak-up the spill, Hartung said.

By Sunday, the Round Pound Marine barge was moored out in the harbor near Mook Sea Farm, the contaminated ice had been removed, and the oysters from the nearby farm were fine, Hartung said.

During the spill, crews from Lincoln County responded to an early morning report of a sinking barge, which also drew the attention of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

Approximately 100 gallons of diesel and oil spilled into the river, but almost all of it was recovered, Hartung said.