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Gib Young Lane Oil Spill

 
Site Contact:
Perry Gaughan
On Scene Coordinator

(gaughan.perry@epa.gov)

Site Location:
Lucy Newberry Oil Well Lease No 16
Gib Young Lane
Monroe, TN 30006
response.epa.gov/youngnewberry

NRC# 966982
On Wednesday, Feb 9th, TDEC Oil and Gas' Jeff Patton reported on oil spill from the Lucy Newberry #16 Oil Well along Gib Young Lane in Monroe, Overton Co, Tenn. Approximately 5-8 barrels of oil had saturated the soil around the pump jack near an unnamed creek to the West Fork of the Obey River.