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Massachusetts Family Hit With $400K Clean-Up Cost After Oil Leak. How You Can Protect Yourself.
"I imagine there are very few homeowners who could take a hit of $400,000 and not be severely impacted," homeowner John Murray said.
April 30, 2025
An insurance policy was no help to a North Attleboro family after an oil tank leaked on their property. Now they're crippled by the clean-up costs.
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Back in February, Kathleen and John Murray's 20-year-old oil tank located outside the back of their North Attleboro home leaked 190 gallons of oil.
"It's just heavy. It's a lot. It had gone under the slab then into the crawl space into the French drain and it was pumping towards the street which was the environmental emergency," Kathleen Murray said.
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Crews work to clean up oil leak at a North Attleboro, Massachusetts home/CBS Boston
Oil tank that leaked at a North Attleboro, Massachusetts home/CBS Boston
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