--- title: Maple Syrup: Truck Leaks 75 Gallons on Highway description: It's a sticky situation in New Hampshire canonical: https://time.com/3973759/maple-syrup-leak/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-27T20:09:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:22:38.121Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Truck Accidentally Leaks 75 Gallons of Maple Syrup Onto Highway og:description: It's a sticky situation in New Hampshire og:url: https://time.com/3973759/maple-syrup-leak/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Truck Accidentally Leaks 75 Gallons of Maple Syrup Onto Highway twitter:description: It's a sticky situation in New Hampshire twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Truck Accidentally Leaks 75 Gallons of Maple Syrup Onto Highway  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jul 27, 2015 8:09 PM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jul 27, 2015 8:09 PM CUT Sad news for waffle lovers and New Hampshire commuters: traffic was backed up near Keene, N.H., after a truck carrying maple syrup started [leaking onto the highway](http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/maple-syrup-leak-brings-traffic-delays-at-keene-roundabout/article%5Fb76034ab-289f-562d-8992-b1076a33cfbc.html "undefined"). Thankfully, only 75 of the 220 gallons of syrup the truck was carrying leaked, the Keene Sentinal reports. The driver, who says he doesn’t know what caused the leak, was driving through New Hampshire when officials from the state’s transportation department alerted him to the sticky situation. Whose job is it to clean up maple syrup anyway? That responsibility has fallen to the fire department, which is using tarps and sand to clean up the syrup, [CBS reports](http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/07/27/maple-syrup-truck-leak/ "undefined"). \[[_Sentinel Source_](http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/maple-syrup-leak-brings-traffic-delays-at-keene-roundabout/article%5Fb76034ab-289f-562d-8992-b1076a33cfbc.html "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3973759/maple-syrup-leak/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3973759/maple-syrup-leak/"},"headline":"Truck Accidentally Leaks 75 Gallons of Maple Syrup Onto Highway","datePublished":"2015-07-27T20:09:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:38.121Z","description":"It's a sticky situation in New Hampshire","url":"https://time.com/3973759/maple-syrup-leak/","keywords":["Newsfeed","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3973759/maple-syrup-leak/","name":"Truck Accidentally Leaks 75 Gallons of Maple Syrup Onto Highway"}}]}] ```