Montville Oil Spill Spreads into Rockaway River: Clean Up Continues

Teams are still cleaning up the Rockaway River after an August 12 oil spill. 

A call at 3:09pm on Tuesday alerted the Montville Department of Public Safety to an oil spill in a Montville Township fuel station.

Diesel oil was spilled from a Finch Fuel Oil delivery truck during its transfer to the station’s underground storage tank.

The Montville Police and Fire Departments responded to the incident with the Hazardous Material Teams. They used hard booms to absorb the spilled oil at both River Road and Knolls Road Bridge and at Stiles and Vail Road in Parsippany. The river was affected for approximately two miles.

Finch Fuel Oil Company hired a private cleanup contractor on the night of the spill. The Morris county Hazardous Material Team is continuing to monitor the recovery operation. They anticipate that the recovery operations will continue for the next few days.