Environmental attorney Sanders says ExxonMobile Pipeline popped for $6.1 million in criminal penalties for discharging diesel oil in Mystic River.

The Department of Justice announced that a criminal information was filed in federal court against a wholly owned subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corporation with violating the Clean Water Act in connection with a spill of approximately 15,000 gallons of diesel oil into the Mystic River from ExxonMobil’s oil terminal in Everett, Mass.

ExxonMobil Pipeline Company was charged with a criminal violation of the Clean Water Act in connection with the January 2006 spill and has signed a plea agreement in which it will pay a total monetary payment of more than $6.1 million and agree to have the Everett terminal monitored by court appointed observer. The plea agreement is subject to court approval.

As part of its plea agreement, ExxonMobil has agreed to pay the maximum possible fine of $359,018 (twice the cost of the clean up), cleanup costs of $179,634, and a community service payment of $5,640,982 to the North American Wetlands Conservation Act fund to be used to restore wetlands in Massachusetts.