Vegetable Oil Spill, North Arlington, NJ; Lyndhurst, NJ, USA
Lyndhurst, NJ, USA | 2025-Apr-18
Initial Notification: On April 18, 2025, USCG Sector New York notified the NOAA SSC that as a result of a fire at the Levchak Oil Company, located in North Arlington, NJ, an estimated 20,000 gallons of cooking oil was released into a marsh adjacent to the Hackensack River. SSC provided USCG with information about product spilled, response recommendations and potential environmental impacts.
Incident Details
| Primary threat: | Oil |
| Products of concern: | vegetable, peanut and soybean oil |
| Total amount at risk of spill: | 3,500 gallons |
| Latitude (approximate): | 40° 46.73′ North |
| Longitude (approximate): | 74° 6.69′ West |
| On-Water Recovery: | Applied |
| Shoreline Cleanup: | Applied |
| Dispersants: | Unknown/Not applicable |
| In-Situ Burn: | Unknown/Not applicable |
| Bioremediation: | Unknown/Not applicable |