Norwich — Parts of Main Street and Broadway in downtown Norwich were closed Monday morning as environmental cleanup crews cleaned up oil that spilled from a garbage compacting truck.

Workers put down sand on the road near the intersection of Main Street and Broadway. Police had closed Broadway south of City Hall, Courthouse Square and Main Street between Franklin Square and the intersection with Route 2. The roads reopened around 11 a.m. 

A truck owned by the waste company CWPM started leaking oil from the engine powering a trash compactor at about 6:30 a.m. Monday as it drove by City Hall on Broadway, according to Jeff Chandler, the supervisor of the Department of Energy & Environmental Protection's emergency response unit.

The truck spilled 30 gallons of oil on Broadway and Main Street. None of the oil spilled into city storm drains, Chandler said.

CWPM has hired Kropp Environmental Contractors, Inc. to clean up the spill.

Norwich police and firefighters were on scene, in addition to officials from DEEP and the city's Public Works department.