WATCH: Coseley chemical spill - Water quality being assessed around site after lorry acid spill
Water quality will be assessed in the coming days around the site of a acid spill from a lorry, leaving five people needing hospital care.
Five people, including two ambulance staff, were taken to hospital after 200 litres of acid spilled from a lorry in Coseley.
Residents and businesses were urged to keep doors and windows closed after the spillage yesterday.
Around 70 firefighters from West Midlands Fire Service worked alongside Environment Agency staff to contain the spill in Anchor Lane.
Emergency services were called at 11.38am after reports that hydrochloric acid was pouring from a tank on the lorry.
A container on the HGV, which had a 1,000 litre capacity, split as the vehicle drove down Anchor Lane, where some of the liquid made its way into nearby water courses.
Mark Smith, from the Environment Agency, added: "There has been minimal impact on the environment. The acid on the road has been neutralised.
"We will be monitoring the surrounding water courses over the next few days."
Lee Baker, fire station commander at Bournbrook and Woodgate Valley, said the five were taken to hospital because of the vapour cloud produced from the spillage, which caused some breathing difficulties.
Dozens of vehicles from the ambulance, fire and police services were at the scene yesterday afternoon as the clean-up began.
The fire service's Hazmat team were using specialist equipment to try to contain the spillage.
Motorists faced days as Meadow Lane, Shaw Road and Biddings Lane were closed, affecting traffic on the Birmingham New Road and Black Country Route.
Staff from a nearby premises of Amey had 'supported the driver' and helped limit the damage to the environment', added station commander Baker.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "Two ambulance staff - one paramedic and an emergency medical technician - required assessment as well as three other people.
"All five went to hospital as a precautionary measure."
