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In Bethlehem Township, governor responds to resident's storm complaint
Sometimes, it pays to complain.
That's what resident Steve Kucinski found when JCP&L didn't respond to his concern about an oil leak on Turkey Hill Road. The leak developed after three electrical transformers fell to the ground on Sunday, Oct. 30, splitting one open and sending its oil onto the road and, Kucinski said Wednesday, possibly into the nearby Turkey Brook.
Kucinski called JCP&L the same day; he said, and JCP&L did examine the damage and promised they'd clean it up promptly. They didn't.
When Tuesday came without action, Kucinski called Gov. Chris Christie's office to complain. "I really didn't expect anything to happen," Kucinski said.
But it did, and a Flanders-based remediation firm arrived to clean up the damage around 4 p.m. Tuesday. Kucinski said its representative told him, "You can see and smell this oil." The company was also concerned about damage to the stream, which it is now assessing, Kucinski said. JCP&L also sent out an environmental engineer.
He reported this afternoon that all three transformers were found to contain mineral oil, which is relatively harmless. A fourth, still hanging in the air, is leaking and oil from it will be tested, but he said he was told that based on identification markingst, the transformer probably contains mineral oil also.
The remediation experts will clean up oil the Turkey Brook and monitor it for several weeks, he said.
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