MEANWHILE: BREAKING 37,000 Gallons of Oil Spill into the EAST RIVER

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Con Edison spills gallons of oil into East River

As if the East River wasn’t toxic enough.

A Con Edison substation spewed gallons of oil into the polluted waterway — prompting a clean-up effort that delayed ferry commuters Tuesday, according to reports.

“The East River route will be subject to delays for the remainder of the day as a result of an oil spill on the East River,” NYC Ferry announced on Twitter.


Officials set up a “safety zone” blocking all water vessels from the area while cleaning up mineral oil that gushed from the company’s substation on John Street in DUMBO Sunday, Gothamist reported.

A “catastrophic” transformer failure caused a 37,000-gallon tank of dielectric fluid — mineral oil used to prevent electric discharges — to leak into the river at around 12:20 p.m. Sunday, Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer Allyson Conroy told the site.
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Last Edited by TidesofTruth on 05/09/2017 05:37 PM