Hundreds of gallons of oil spill into city drainage system

January 22, 2015

THE DRIVER OF THIS First Energy home heating oil delivery truck lost control of his vehicle on black ice on Howard Street Monday morning. The truck flipped over on its side and several hundred gallons of oil spilled onto the roadway and into two city catch basins. Firefighters responded and “diked” Howard Street in the area of the spill. First Energy hired the environmental cleanup company Enpro to rid the oil from the town’s drainage system. Oil could be found in a stream as far from the site as Soc’s Ice Cream on the Lynn Fells Parkway. (Donna Larsson Photos) — THE DRIVER OF THIS First Energy home heating oil delivery truck lost control of his vehicle on black ice on Howard Street Monday morning. The truck flipped over on its side and several hundred gallons of oil spilled onto the roadway and into two city catch basins. Firefighters responded and “diked” Howard Street in the

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