Northville Gas; Linden, New Jersey

Linden, New Jersey | 1989-Jul-18

Initial Notification: On July 18, 1989, number 6 oil began slowly leaking through a crack in a storage tank containing 310,000 barrels of the product at the Northville Gas facility in Linden, New Jersey. Although a dike contained most of the product, approximately 500 gallons escaped through a drainage conduit to be boomed off in the Arthur Kills. While the cleanup contractors were pumping the oil from the dike into a dockside barge at a rate of 13,000 barrels per hour, the facility operators were transferring product to other tanks at the site. USCG district 1.