At least there was a quick response to contain and clean it up.

Good Job officers & firefighters!

I'm sure the company that ownes the building where the spill originated will have some explaining to do and pay some hefty fines.

That's the same marina and specific location that the J.C. Fire Department docks their fire boat.

Diesel fuel spill in Newport
by Craig Garretson
Sunday February 17, 2008, 6:53 PM

Two Jersey City cops with a nose for trouble helped sniff out a leaking underground fuel tank.

The two officers were on patrol in Newport last night when they smelled a strong chemical odor. They followed their noses to an underground tank on Pavonia Avenue, where a faulty valve had allowed some diesel fuel to seep out and drain into stormwater sewers that flow into the Hudson River.

Workers shut down the valve and a team from Ken's Marine in Bayonne cleaned up the fuel that had drained into the Hudson River.

"Thanks to two observant and fast-acting police officers, we were able to bring this situation quickly under control," Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy said.

Oh, great. Liberty View Harbor indictments, oil spills....what's next , an earthquake in Paulus Hook ?

NEW YORK?The Coast Guard is investigating a reported 100-gallon diesel oil spill in the Newport Marina in Jersey City, N.J. reported around 9:30 p.m. today.


A Jersey City Fire Department marine unit contacted Coast Guard Sector New York via marine band radio to notify them that 100-gallons of diesel fuel was reportedly discharged into the marina by a faulty generator on shore.

Coast Guard Sector New York immediately sent two pollution investigators to Newport Marina to investigate.

"Our objective at this early stage is to secure the source of the spill, contain it and prevent any further pollution from entering the water," said Lt. j.g. Richard Sullivan, Command Duty Officer at Sector New York.

Newport Marina is located just north of the Morris Canal.

This incident is under investigation

I went by there this morning and there's a strong odor of gas and you can see a rainbow colored film on top of the water. They put those floating barricades in the water to keep a lot of it contained, but it looks like there was a lot that still escaped. There were a few people from some cleanup group standing around with clip boards, but when I asked what happened the guy said he couldn't disclose that information. Shady.

Anyone have any info on what's going on in Newport tonight? All kinds of emergency vehicles on the roads and the water, police tapes blocking off all the roads, stores and shops closed, smell of gas. We heard it was an oil spill... what's the scoop?