Exxon Valdez in size, resulted from multiple leaks that existed during the 1950's. The Attorney General's move was welcomed by elected officials and community members alike, and hopefully is indicative of future actions of New York State to conserve our marine environment...JBImage: Newtown Creek, Wikipedia
By Nicholas Confessore
February 9, 2007
New York State moved to sue Exxon Mobil and four other companies on Thursday to force them to clean up a half-century-old spill of millions of gallons of oil lying under the Greenpoint neighborhood in Brooklyn and to repair environmental damage inflicted on nearby Newtown Creek.
The spill, originally several times the size of the Exxon Valdez oil leak, resulted from an accident in the 1950s and lay undiscovered until 1978. In notices of intent to sue that were sent to the five companies, Andrew M. Cuomo, the state attorney general, said that so much oil had leaked into the creek that some samples of its sediment, when dried and weighed, were nearly one-tenth oil.
The notices also disclosed that an internal study by one of the companies found nearly 100 different pollutants in the creek water or sediment, including benzene, arsenic and lead.
The other companies receiving the notices were BP, Chevron, KeySpan and Phelps Dodge.
Read more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/nyregion/08cnd-brooklyn.html
Newtown Creek on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtown_Creek
Riverkeeper Page on Newtown Creek Spill
http://riverkeeper.org/campaign.php/pollution/we_are_doing/805
Google Map of Newtown Creek
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=cmrc&sll=40.6939,-73.999206&sspn=0.006898,0.009699&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=40.736527,-73.955369&spn=0.013788,0.033474&t=h&om=1
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