An Ontario County man has been emotional with a felony and a transgression since of a extended-term gasoline escape at a Canandaigua repair position he owns.

J. Thomas Schaeffer II, 57, of 3469 Route 488, Clifton spring, has been emotional with the felony, third-degree endanger public health, security or the surroundings, and the misdemeanor, breakdown to keep every day record records connecting to a mass fuel storage space facility, according to state Department of Conservation officials. The charges stem from the loss of more than 1,200 gallons of gas at Tom’s Mobil Station, 267 S. Main St., Canandaigua. The gas station is blocked plus the spill is being clean up, said DEC Police Capt. Michael Van Durme.

Schaeffer was arraign Tuesday in Canandaigua City Court. He plead not responsible and is free on his own recognizance, but he did not have a lawyer with him. His next court manifestation is scheduled for these days through a legal representative.

The state DEC examination was encouraged by a citizen’s grievance concerning burly fumes at the position. DEC personnel establish a leak beneath a gas force and strong-minded that gasoline had been seep into the earth and a nearby sewer line for quite a few weeks. State law require gas station owners to track their inventory and report losses to the DEC.

DEC official claim Schaeffer had not submissive his inventory records from in the early hours September 2009 to Nov. 8, 2009, the day the foundation of the fall was identified.

He faces a utmost fine of $150,000 and four years in penitentiary on the felony charge. The fine for the misdemeanor is $3,750 to $37,500 per day of violation and could comprise a jail sentence of up to one year.