On june 22, 1972, 140,000-190,000 barrels of waste oil and sludge from berks associates oil reclamation…

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Schuylkill River Spill; Douglassville, Pennsylvania.
Douglassville, Pennsylvania.
1. On June 22, 1972, 140,000-190,000 barrels of waste oil and sludge from Berks Associates oil reclamation plant escaped into the Schuylkill River at Douglassville, Pennsylvania. The release resulted from heavy rains and flooding of the entire lagoon complex. Twelve to eighteen inches of rainfall from Hurricane Agnes on June 21-22 raised the Schuylkill River 20 feet over its banks and flooded the waste oil lagoons. Agnes proved to be the worst natural disaster in the U.S. at the time. Two billion dollars in damage and 100 fatalities were attributed to the storm. The spilled oil was not sighted until June 23, due to the more pressing concerns of evacuation and property damage. U.S. Coast Guard and Environmental Protection Agency personnel conducted an overflight of the area to assess the magnitude of the flood damage. Black oil and several hundred drums containing hazardous chemicals were [...]
2. COMMODITY: WASTE OIL AND SLUDGE. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 7980000 GALLONS.
3. POSITION 40.250N 075.633W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6214: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6214