ALBANY, Ore. — An Environmental Protection Agency release states that an Oregon company has agreed to pay fines totaling about $23,000 regarding a 900-gallon diesel spill that contaminated an area creek.
Jerry Brown Co., Inc., a Eugene-based petroleum distribution company, paid a $9,900 penalty to the EPA and a $13,200 penalty to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality for a spill in February 2016.
The company also paid for cleanup at Spoon Creek, which took more than a month. The release states it paid an estimated $100,000 to remove and dispose about 2,141 cubic meters of diesel-saturated soil.
The release says that a farmer’s soil, his nearby field and the creek was contaminated by the spill from a 1,000-gallon above-ground storage tank.
