Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um has clamped a hy­dro­car­bon leak near the Moru­ga Sec­ondary School that trig­gered air qual­i­ty test­ing and emer­gency re­sponse mea­sures late last month.

The com­pa­ny said the leak, de­tect­ed on May 23, prompt­ed im­me­di­ate ac­tion by its emer­gency team to con­tain and clean the area. It has since re­stored the site.

Dur­ing the cleanup, school of­fi­cials re­port­ed a strong odour. In re­sponse, Her­itage met with them and sent emer­gency med­ical re­spon­ders to the school. The com­pa­ny al­so com­mis­sioned in­de­pen­dent air qual­i­ty tests, which con­firmed that air qual­i­ty re­mained with­in ac­cept­able lim­its.