Oil Spill Fouls Delaware River
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Description: NPR&#39;s Jennifer Ludden gives an update on a 30,000-gallon oil spill in the Delaware River near Philadelphia and takes note of &quot;Buy Nothing&quot; day.
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By Brian Neill, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 19--MANATEE -- Workers laid down absorbent cloth along the shore and monitored containment booms in the water at Port Manatee on Monday after 900 gallons of oil used by Florida Power and Light Co. leaked into Tampa Bay.
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FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. - Wildlife officials are trying to coax a seal back into the ocean after it found its way into an area of woods and marshes near the Delaware River.  The 300-pound animal was found in suburban Philadelphia, about 50 miles upriver from where the Delaware becomes salty.
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Some residents of cities and towns flooded by the Delaware River struggled to clean up debris and waterlogged possessions Saturday but many others were still waiting to return to their homes.
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ST. JOHN&#39;S, NFLD. -- An environmental assessment panel predicted seven years ago how hard it would be to clean up oil spills from a project off Newfoundland that spilled 170,000 litres into the Atlantic last week.
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Egyptian Suez Canal authorities are trying to direct a crude oil spill away from Port Said where it could damage ships and equipment, a canal official said on Friday. The official said the authorities were attempting to direct the 20-km (13- mile) long slick, heading north toward the port, to an empty waiting area normally used by ships crossing the canal, where it could be dispersed using chemicals.
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The US Coast Guard was helping to clean up an oil spill in the Delaware River near Philadelphia Saturday, hours after a vessel leaked the crude into the waterway, according to a Coast Guard spokesman.
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By Paul James  A company fined over a 4km oil slick on the River Tyne has overturned the pounds 14,000 it was forced to pay out.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 5--CHAPEL HILL -- Aqua North Carolina water company had a wastewater spill Thursday of an estimated 20,000 gallons from a cracked pipe in Carolina Meadows retirement community.
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By Brian Neill, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 20--The source of a 900-gallon oil spill into Tampa Bay from Port Manatee discovered Monday has been traced to a roughly quarter-inch hole in a transfer pipe that had been leaking for more than a day.
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By The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 21--What started out as a simple dredging proposal to improve navigation at the base of Budd Inlet has turned into a costly need to clean up chemical contamination in the inlet.
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Kansas officials said on  Monday they were trying to contain damage from a significant  oil refinery spill that occurred over the weekend as raging  floodwaters wreaked havoc through the southeast part of the  state.
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The Athos I tanker shown between a dry dock station is listing on the Delaware River near Paulsboro, NJ Saturday, Nov. 27, 2004. On Friday the tanker spilled 30,000 gallons of heavy crude oil into the Delaware
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Birds coated in oil were carried to a wildlife refuge by volunteers trying to save them from the largest oil spill on the Delaware River in nearly a decade.
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The lower Ohio River was closed to traffic near Brookport, Illinois, on Wednesday after a tow boat hit a lock and a barge leaked a petrochemical into the waterway, said the U.S. Coast Guard.
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US Coast Guard Divers have found a two-metre gash on the tanker in the Delaware River. The spill leaked over 100-thousand litres of crude oil and has created a 32-kilometre long slick.
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By Walter Griffin, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 15--BELFAST -- Emergency officials estimated that approximately 1,000 gallons of gasoline spilled on Route 1 Wednesday night when a fuel tanker truck was forced off the road and rolled into a ditch.