State officials clarify cause of Trumbull County oil spill

WARREN — There were no leaks in the holding tanks or liner at the Kleese Development Associates injection-well facility in Vienna, but an “overspill” from a tank and the liner caused the release of 2,000 gallons of “light waste oil” into the environment, a Trumbull County commissioner says.

Commissioner Mauro Cantalamessa said the board of commissioners met with three state officials Tuesday – one from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, one from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and one from the Ohio Department of Health.

The commissioners have had many questions about what happened in late March, when the oil got into wetlands and streams on the east side of Sodom-Hutchings Road across the street from the KDA site, but they have not had any luck getting answers.

On Tuesday, however, the ODNR official told them information previously provided by state Rep. Sean O’Brien of Bazetta, D-63rd, about the spill was incorrect.

The oil didn’t spill off site because of leaks in storage tanks or the liner beneath it; the oil spilled out of a tank and out of the liner, Cantalamessa said.

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