Unified command identifies oil, clean-up operations continue
Coast Guard Petty Officer NiChelle Flynn and New York Department of Environmental Conservation environmental engineer Rick Lin patrol Breezy Point Beach Sunday, March 31, 2019, searching for tar balls. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Nicole J. Groll)
NEW YORK – The Unified Command for the Goethals Oil Spill positively identified that tar balls recovered from Jacob Riis Park correlate...
Coast Guard responding to fuel oil discharge near Norco, Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard is responding to a heavy fuel oil discharge near Norco, Louisiana, Monday.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a report at approximately 1 a.m. of a heavy fuel oil discharge from the foreign flagged vessel Iver Exporter near mile marker 126 on the Lower Mississippi River.
The source of the discharge is reported to be secured.
A reported 2,600 gallons...
Coast Guard responding to oil discharge near Gramercy, Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard is responding to a fuel oil discharge on the Mississippi River near Gramercy, Louisiana.
Coast Guard Sector New Orleans Incident Management Division received a report at 8:24 a.m., Thursday from the National Response Center of a discharge originating from Petroleum Fuel and Terminal Mt. Airy during a transfer of oil from the facility to a barge at mile marker 144.6 on...