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Cleanup ongoing for San Francisco Bay oil spill

Source: Palm Beach Post
Alameda : CA : USA | about 1 month ago  
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Calif. — Cleanup crews are still sopping up fuel that washed up on Alameda County beaches after last week's oil spill in San Francisco Bay. Coast Guard officials say 400 to 800 gallons of oil spilled onto the deck of the Panamanian-flagged Dubai Star and into the water after a line ruptured Friday during...
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  • News Source: Contra Costa Times | 27 days ago
    More wildlife has turned up dead from a spill Friday that dumped at least 800 gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay. Two of the 36 birds recovered Sunday night have died, and 11 birds were found already dead from oil exposure, said Carol...
  • News Source: Palm Beach Post | 28 days ago
    Calif. — Cleanup crews are still sopping up fuel that washed up on Alameda County beaches after last week's oil spill in San Francisco Bay. Coast Guard officials say 400 to 800 gallons of oil spilled onto the deck of the Panamanian-flagged Dubai...
  • News Source: The Californian | 28 days ago
    Coast Guard, cleanup crews continue to work in several areas affected by the Dubai Star oil spill while wildlife experts search for and capture any animals impacted by the spill. Wildlife recovery specialists have recovered 36 live birds affected by...
  • News Source: San Francisco Chronicle | 28 days ago
    Efforts to limit the damage from Friday's fuel spill in the San Francisco Bay focused Sunday on the Alameda shoreline, where rescue workers tried to save oiled birds that had beached themselves and painstakingly removed balls of sticky tar. Images...
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  • Blog Source: sfappeal.com
    Crews have confirmed that the spill has impacted shorelines at Robert Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda, as well as at Ballena Bay and Bay Farm Island. About 80 percent of the cleanup efforts at Robert Crown Memorial State Beach ...
  • Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.com
    Crews worked Saturday to clean up fuel leaked into San Francisco Bay and care for a dozen birds one day after an oil tanker spilled hundreds of gallons into the water. ... Eng said there were 12 reports of birds affected by the oil spill, although
  • Blog Source: www.theislandofalameda.com
    According to the Coast Guard, their oil trajectory models showed that Alameda's northern shoreline and Bay Farm Island could be affected by the spill, which was reported at 6:48 a.m. Friday as the Dubai Star tanker vessel was refueling ... Later that
  • Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.com
    Cleanup efforts resumed this morning at the site of an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay, according to the US Coast Guard. The Coast Guard is estimating between 400 and 800 gallons of oil spilled into the Bay Friday morning, ...
  • Blog Source: www.theislandofalameda.com
    Crown Beach will be closed indefinitely and fishing and shellfish gathering continue to be suspended as cleanup crews turn their efforts toward pulling oil off Alameda's shores. An investigation into the cause of the spill is continuing. Earlier
  • Blog Source: oaklandnorth.net
    At the time of the spill, the ship was located 2.5 miles south of the Bay Bridge, west of Alameda and Oakland, Gugg said. The spilled bunker oil powered the Dubai Star, Gugg said, and leaked during a fuel transfer. It was not, he said, ...
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