EPA recently settled with another Newark company, Hudson Tank, for similar violations.
Spills are certainly easier to prevent than to clean up.
A few relatively simple preventive measures taken now can avert a lot of headaches in the future. In addition, Atlas will replace its wooden fish oil tanks and perform upgrades of various pipelines. In the other SPCC case settled this past July with Hudson Tank, EPA found this facility to have an inadequate SPCC plan. An inspection of the property also revealed that there was not adequate secondary containment, around its oil storage tanks and loading and unloading areas at the facility. Secondary containment is a barrier that would contain spills before they can reach a surface water.