More Oil Stink Near Roebling Oil Field?
It's not that we intended to do daily posts about the Roebling Oil Field this week, it's simply working out that way. First, we had new test well drilled and some documents passed along to us. Then, we had an email from DEC that was forwarded. (Not to mention the illegal Sunday construction work.) Now, we've got a first hand report about new pile driving at the Roebling site and a strong smell of oil.
A Williamsburg resident contacted us yesterday to say that pile driving was going at the southwest corner of the Robeling site, along N. 10th Street between Driggs and Roebling and that oil could clearly be smelled a distance away. We don't know if the oil smell was being given off by the equipment, by creosote soaked piles that were being pounded into the ground or by oil, but given the history of the site and the fact that everything there is to know about the oil is not conclusively known, reports of Essence of Petroleum are worth noting.
Labels: Roebling Oil Field, Williamsburg
posted by rsguskind at 8:15 AM
6 Comments:
Big news. Never heard that before.
Keep up the jr. high journalism.
wanna report on something relevant?
try the deutsch bank building ground zero situation.
lots of stuff there if you are truly envirnonmentally concerned.
God forbid someone should report something negative about Williamsburg.
Let's not talk about the potential environmental crisis because it may then it will go away.
Sincerely, The Williamsburg Ostrich Club
a whiel ago 2007 blog i think there was some reporting on the discussion of oil underground around the area of McCarren Park. Was this on the southeast side where the new condos buildings al line that block or was this on the east side of McCarren toward the BQE behind the Mccarren Pool? toward the old public school?
this is freaky as for I live very close to this location and I have caught, on hotter spring days, a wiff of that oil. if what i saw on a documentary by VBS is true, then this is the oil that is seeping out of the ground.
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