Home Heating Oil New Jersey

I have a memory of seeing a map of my neighborhood in Jersey City with toxic materials listed as overlay including fuel oil/home heating oil tanks shown as well as other materials like chromium etc. Anyone ever see such a map?

Go to the EPA website and you can find out all sorts of lovely things in your backyard.


http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index.html

2007-08-01 14:05:14 by Charles Jersey City Neighbor

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i'm writing a paper on this that needs to be 2 pages double spaced. So, its not that long but I can barely find any info about it. iv been googling it & iv been on about every website about it & they all have such little info on it. this is what I have so far & its less than half a page.

On March 6th, 1990 the barge Cibro Savannah mysteriously exploded and caught on fire in Linden, New Jersey. The barge was being pulled from the Citgo dock when this incident occurred. It contained over 4.2 million gallons of home heating oil. It is estimated that one hundred twenty-seven thousand gallons were spilled into the Arthur Kill. It is unknown as to how much oil was consumed in the fire. About 3.8 million gallons of oil remained in the barge, and was to be unloaded. This oil spill was a major event in United states history.
The spill did not cause a lot of damage to the environment because most of the oil was contained. Although a thin layer of oil, called a sheen, spread from the barge two miles south to the Fresh Kill area off Staten Island.


does anyone know a good website about this that has a lot of info? or does anyone know anything about it themselves? thanks in advance for all the help.

Try the local newspaper wibe site. You may be able to find old report.

2008-12-14 17:01:33 by l.c