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672-gallon oil spill fouls Huntington Beach channel

Posted by: Maven on January 28, 2010 at 6:44 am

From the Los Angeles Times:

“Crews are working to clean up an oil spill that dumped an estimated 672 gallons of crude oil last week into a Huntington Beach flood-control channel that drains to wetlands and the Pacific Ocean, authorities said Wednesday.

After getting reports of a petroleum odor Jan. 21, Orange County public works crews a day later discovered the spill in the Huntington Beach Channel east of Beach Boulevard and south of Adams Avenue, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

“There was oil all the way across the channel from wall to wall,” said Robert Wise, the EPA’s on-scene coordinator. “As the tide went in and out, it just sloshed the oil up and down the walls of the channel.” … “

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January 28, 2010 · Filed Under Southern California

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One Response to “672-gallon oil spill fouls Huntington Beach channel”

  1. nickoles gabaldon on January 31st, 2010 11:10 pm

    i want to help

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