Another Oil Spill.

[dgibby]

MOBILE, Alabama -- About 275,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil spilled in the middle of the night at the Gulf Coast Asphalt Company's facility on the Mobile River.

An unknown amount of oil flowed into the Mobile River, according to Coast Guard officials, who closed the river to all traffic between the Cochrane Africatown USA Bridge and the south end of McDuffie Island. Officials said a large portion of the spill remained on land.

Oil could be seen floating across a broad area of the river's surface by 10 a.m. Containment boom could be seen floating on the river, though oil appeared to be moving past it.

Ditches along the Cochrane Causeway, the stretch of road between the bridge and the Causeway, were coated in a thick layer of oil. The oil flowed past absorbent boom spread across the drainage ditches. The ditches drain into Polecat Bay on the edge of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. Mosquito fish and tadpoles schooled beneath patches of oil as it drifted downstream on the current.

more at link:

http://blog.al.com/live/2011/09/significant_crude_oil_spill_cl.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Used to be a good clean river/estuary down there.

Sigh.

[Shagbark Hickory]

2. Lets not stop until every square centimeter of the planet is covered in oil.

[JuniperLea]

3. Why isn't this all over the TV news?

I'm so sick of the media.

Estuaries are the birthplace of life as far as I'm concerned. So much other life depends on what comes from there.

[blindpig]

4. I'm sure it will be handled as well as the Gulf Spill....

Is Gulf Coast Asphalt ok?

[defendandprotect]

5. kr