An explosion at a Consolidated Edison substation has set off a massive oil-spill cleanup along the Bronx River.
Scores of workers are cleaning up an unknown quantity of a light, clear oil similar to mineral oil that flowed into the city’s storm sewer system on Nov. 4 when a 345-kilovolt transformer containing 30,000 gallons of the fluid caught fire. A machine malfunction created an electrical arc that ignited the oil at 152 Kingston Ave. in the Dunwoodie neighborhood.
The resulting smoky fire was controlled in 20 minutes, and no one lost power from the event. Much of the oil, which was used as a dielectric fluid to cool the transformers, burned or remained on-site, but some of it mixed with the water used to quell the flames and escaped into the city’s sewer system, where it flowed into the Bronx River near the Cross County Parkway. Read more..
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