{"id":2207,"date":"2007-03-16T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T18:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/03\/status_cuo_or_even_mo_oil_in_the_creek.html"},"modified":"2007-03-16T10:08:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T18:08:23","slug":"status_cuo_or_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/status_cuo_or_e.html","title":{"rendered":"Status Cuo Or Even Mo Oil In The Creek?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exxon Mobil is halting its cleanup operation at Newtown Creek<\/a> because of the lawsuit recently filed to force the company to clean up the site:<\/p>\n

Unhappy about the pace of Exxon Mobil’s cleanup of the oil spill under Greenpoint that is seeping into Newtown Creek? Brace yourself because its about to get a lot slower before it speeds up.<\/p>\n

Exxon announced late last week that they would be shutting down a key component of their pumping system in response to two lawsuits filed by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and Riverkeeper, an environmental group that has been trying to expedite a cleanup for years.<\/p>\n

The oil giant will be shutting down a system that draws the oil to wells where it can be siphoned out of the ground by first pumping out ground water and making a depression for the oil to flow into. The ground water is discharged into Newtown Creek via a pipe at the end of Meeker Avenue, water that both lawsuits claim is contaminated and in possible violation of the Clean Water Act.<\/p>\n

Shutting down the process means that the ground water won’t be dumped into the creek, but it also means that the oil will be pulled from the ground at a much slower pace. In published reports last week, an Exxon spokesperson said that the shut down was temporary and suspended only until proper permits are obtained.<\/p>\n

According to Basil Seggos of Riverkeeper, however, the system also keeps oil mixed with groundwater from seeping into the creek through the bulkheads.<\/p>\n

“There is the alarming possibility that the water will be full of even more pollutants,” warned Seggos.<\/p>\n

Seggos added that Exxon has claimed that it is necessary to pump out the groundwater, otherwise it will be virtually impossible to pump out any oil.<\/p>\n

“Without pumping the ground water, they many not get out any oil,” said Seggos.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exxon Mobil is halting its cleanup operation at Newtown Creek because of the lawsuit recently filed to force the company to clean up the site: Unhappy about the pace of Exxon Mobil’s cleanup of the oil spill under Greenpoint that is seeping into Newtown Creek? Brace yourself because its about to get a lot slower […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}