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Oil spill cleanup continues on Alameda shore

Alameda : CA : USA | about 1 month ago  
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Cleanup crews and volunteers picked up globules of sandy tar and chased down oily birds on an Alameda beach Monday, three days after a refueling mishap caused as much as 800 gallons of bunker fuel to spill into San Francisco Bay. Images More Bay Area News Since the spill, wildlife recovery teams in the...
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  • News Source: Contra Costa Times | 21 days ago
    The oil spilled into San Francisco Bay last week has been almost entirely cleaned up along the western Alameda coast, but nearby shoreline fisheries are likely to remain closed for about two weeks, officials said Tuesday. Shoreline fishing was shut...
  • News Source: San Francisco Chronicle | 21 days ago
    More than 80 percent of the oil that reached the Alameda shoreline after spilling from a tanker last week has been removed, but it may take weeks to extract the rest from sand and rocks, officials said Tuesday. More News Barry McFarland, incident...
  • News Source: San Francisco Chronicle | 21 days ago
    Cleanup crews and volunteers picked up globules of sandy tar and chased down oily birds on an Alameda beach Monday, three days after a refueling mishap caused as much as 800 gallons of bunker fuel to spill into San Francisco Bay. Images More Bay...
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  • Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.com
    Crews today are continuing to clean areas affected by Friday's oil spill into the San Francisco Bay, though for the second day no oil sheen is visible on the water, a US Coast Guard petty officer said this morning. Between 400 and 800 gallons of ...
  • 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: aquafornia.com
    Oil, bird cleanup crews focus on Alameda coast. Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 2, 2009 at 6:13 pm. From the San Francisco Chronicle: “Efforts to limit the damage from Friday's fuel spill in the San Francisco Bay focused Sunday ...
  • 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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