LOWER FREDERICK TOWNSHIP

Large oil spill near Perkiomen Trail parking area shuts down Main Street, Schwenksville Road Tuesday evening

Oil dry or sand is en route to the scene to clean up the spill of unknown origin.

Pennsylvania State Police. Photo by James Short.

Oil dry or sand is en route to the scene to clean up the spill of unknown origin.

  • Public Safety

A large oil spill of unknown origin has shut down Main Street and Schwenksville Road at the Perkiomen Trail Spring Mount parking area Tuesday evening in Lower Frederick Township.

According to Montgomery County emergency radio reports, the spill is flowing toward Schwenksville Road, causing multiple cars to slide on the roadway. 

Pennsylvania State Police has called for the shutdown of roadways until oil dry or sand can be brought to the scene. 

It was reported at 5:09 p.m. along the unit block of N. Main Street. 



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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at tony@northpennnow.com. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, under the tutelage of Dr. Matthew Nesvisky and Dr. Heather Thomas, and went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Lansdale Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and the weekly Chronicle news editions of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. A fourth-generation Lansdalian, he was born and raised in and around the Borough, including Little Italy, and attended North Penn High School, graduating in 1998. He once interviewed Jesse Spano in the back of a limousine outside North Penn High School.

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