A Brooklyn family is still
seeking help months after their yard was contaminated by an oil leak.
Nazam Ghanie says more than
200 gallons of oil spilled in his yard and some even seeped through the cracks
into his basement.
“When the tank busted, the
oil came all over the place,” Ghanie says.
He called Approved Oil Inc.
on Jan. 9 to replace barrels of oil he uses to heat his house when the oil
leaked.
Ghanie says the employee at
Approved Oil Inc. left without resolving the issue, leaving Ghanie to clean up
the mess alone.
Approved Oil Inc. told News
12 that, “The situation at 203 Pine Street remains ongoing” and they are
working “as quickly and safely as possible to remediate the property and
resolve the issue.”
The New York State Department
of Environmental Conservation also issued a partial statement, saying: “DEC
continues to work with the homeowner at 203 Pine Street in Brooklyn to ensure
cleanup of his basement following an oil spill on Jan. 9 during a fuel oil
delivery by Approved Oil Inc.”
The family says the yard was
a place for gardening and barbecues, and now they are afraid they won’t get any
use out of it during the summer.
Ghanie says he is legally
entitled to a proper clean-up job.
“The job is cheap,” Ghanie
says. “They don’t want a cleaning company or a contractor to do the proper
work.”