[CPEO-BIF] "Oil Spilled Into Seekonk River from Pawtucket [Rhode Island] Brownfield Project"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Oil Spilled Into Seekonk River from Pawtucket Brownfield Project


By Rob Smith
ecoRI (RI)
December 2, 2021


PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Coal tar oil from the city’s $284 million Tidewater Landing project spilled into the Seekonk River on Dec. 1. It was the second such spill in the past month.

Property owner National Grid confirmed to ecoRI News on Dec. 2 that while remediating the site for a multiuse soccer stadium, oil had breached booms set up in the water to contain it, giving the surrounding waters a rainbow sheen. It was unknown at the time of publication the extent of the spill and how much of the surrounding area will be impacted, but pictures posted on social media Thursday morning by Uprise RI show dead fish washed up onshore.

The future site of Pawtucket’s soccer stadium is one of Rhode Island’s oldest brownfields. The Pawtucket Gas Co. started manufacturing coal into gas in 1881. In 1954, natural gas arrived into Rhode Island via pipelines, and the site just off Taft Street produced oilgas until decommissioning in 1968. The byproducts of these industrial processes are what is spilling into the Seekonk River.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.ecori.org/pollution-contamination/2021/12/2/oil-spilled-into-seekonk-river-from-pawtucket-brownfield-project

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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