Southbound traffic on the Princes Highway just north of the Nowra bridge was disrupted after the spill around 11am on September 12, for close to five hours as the clean-up took place.

Fairfax Media understands despite having a “literal wall of televisions screens” showing traffic footage from CCTV cameras from around the state the Traffic Management Centre does not have the ability to record incidents.

While the ongoing inconvenience to motorists was certainly witnessed on the footage, the actual incident was not seen and authorities say there is no way they can go back to see who might be responsible for the spill.

NSW Police, RMS and the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) have told Fairfax Media they aren’t even investigating to try and discover who might be the culprit.

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RMS said it has CCTV cameras installed in four locations along the Princes Highway, at Worrigee Street, Pleasant Way, Illaroo Road and Bolong Road.

And a recent red light camera has also been installed at the intersection of the highway and Moss Street in Nowra.

The camera began operation on September 17 and will target both red-light running and speeding.

The RMS’ website said fines for unsecured loads, having a load causing instability or overhanging or not removing or removing anything that has fallen onto the road are each $439 and three demerit points.

In this instance there is also the cost of the clean up, which carried out by Fire and Rescue NSW sits with the taxpayers.