HEBRON (AP) — A heating oil company is picking up the tab for a 1,500-gallon spill at a Hebron elementary school.
Superintendent Rick Colpitts and Jessamine Logan, a spokeswoman for the Department of Environmental Protection, tell the Sun Journal that C.N. Brown oil company of Paris has assumed full responsibility for the cleanup.
A company employee accidentally overfilled the tank at the Hebron Station School in December.
Authorities have said the spill occurred when a gauge on the oil tank malfunctioned, showing the tank was empty when it was not.
The accident caused the shutdown of the school for a week while oil flowed into nearby wetlands.
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