Oil spill on the Muskenetcong

[Fishinfire]

Mansfield Twp Warren County. A leaking abandoned home heating oil storage tank to the tune of between 10,000-20,000 gallon capacity was found to be leaking today with a sheen on the Muskenetcong. Multiple county HAZMAT crews as well as the DEP response were working all day on containment and clean up.

[Jigman13]

That's awful! Isn't that right by the pt mt TCA?

[acabtp]

Mansfield Twp Warren County. A leaking abandoned home heating oil storage tank to the tune of between 10,000-20,000 gallon capacity was found to be leaking today with a sheen on the Muskenetcong. Multiple county HAZMAT crews as well as the DEP response were working all day on containment and clean up.

i can't find any info on this, do you have any more details, location, etc? a 10,000-20,000 gallon tank is enormous, home tanks are usually less than 1,000.

[FASTEDDIE29]

One of our members located a fuel oil leak on the Musky. He called the DEP and Mansfield Police Department which are working on it right now. We reached out to the MWA and let them know about the situation. I'm at the river now the leak started just above the old Casilla Grill location on Hizer Rd at an abandoned property. There are four 5000 gallon tanks there that were supposedly empty.

Traces of fuel oil or already made its way down to Point Mt.

I see a huge cleanup on the way so we are going to need all hands on deck to help out

I will be in contact with everybody to let you know what's going on as soon as DEP lets me know

Because of pro active members from our chapter we are able to hopefully put this to bed as soon as possible!!

Some info on this mess on Facebook fellas! This is horrible!

[Sleeper-6]

I was going to say, that's a massive amount of oil storage. Was the source an oil company or something?

[acabtp]

bummer. i bet sunday's heavy rain ended up in one of the tanks somehow and floated the oil out.

[NJSquatch]

UGH!

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/warren-county/index.ssf/2016/01/heating_oil_leaks_into_muscone.html

Spill Location
13 Heiser Rd, Port Murray, NJ 07865

http://binged.it/1ZnBPwu

[shrimpman steve]

That sucks

[Chrisper4694]

def not a single home tank at that size...that's bad...

[baetis]

"The tanks at Beeline Fuel on Heiser Road near Route 57 were pumped out in 2002, county hazardous materials specialist Tom Nigro said Monday morning.


But there still was still residual oil at the bottom of the tanks, he said. One of the rusted tanks had a crack in a feeder pipe, he said. Once that was repaired, the leak appeared to stop, he said.

The tanks were drained of an additional 1,200 gallons of fuel since the the DEP's Bureau of Emergency Response-North began its efforts on Sunday, spokesman Bob Considine said."

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Drained in 2002 but still has over 1,200 gallons of "residual"??? I wonder who dropped the ball on checking the original "draining".

[Chrisper4694]

any time you count on someone to do their job correctly you end up wrong. it goes for doctors, lawyers, politicians...you just can't trust anyone. It's pretty sad really.