Gloucester County Man Sentenced for Recklessly Causing Oil Spill in Spring Lake

TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that a Gloucester County man was sentenced today for recklessly causing an oil spill last year in Spring Lake and Mantua Creek in Washington Township by using a vacuum tank truck containing an industrial solvent to pump the water from his swimming pool and discharge it into a storm drain. The truck was used to transport a petroleum distillate called \”cutting oil,\” but the man said he believed it was empty.