Barge collision and spill shut lower Ohio River
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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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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - It's a good thing Huntington didn't need to close it's flood gates as the Ohio River flooded this week because some of the equipment used to do so has been stolen...
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An oil tanker leaked about 30,000 gallons of crude into the Delaware River late on Friday, worrying local environmentalists and causing a section of river to be closed to commercial traffic, Coast Guard officials said on Saturday.
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A ship carrying orange juice and a dredging vessel collided in Newark Bay on Thursday, closing the bay to all ship traffic, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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The type of ship that spilled 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River after something ripped a hole in its hull is scheduled to be barred from US waters within seven years because of safety concerns.
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LISBON, Ohio - Flood waters rushed through rural northeast Ohio on Saturday, ripping houses from their foundations and tearing a 65-foot deep crater into a road, authorities said.    A couple was killed in a crash on a rain-drenched highway, while a man whose home was carried off was found unharmed in a tree, authorities said...
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Eric Martin purchased a condominium a few weeks ago in Painesville, a Cleveland suburb surrounded on three sides by the Grand River. On Friday, 10 inches of rain raised the river 11 feet above flood level, sending water pouring into homes and chasing people to rooftops to await boat rescues. An estimated 600 people were evacuated. One man drowned, authorities said.
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PHILADELPHIA Nov 27, 2004 - A tanker spilled 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, creating a 20-mile-long slick that threatened fish and birds, Coast Guard officials said Saturday.
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By Dave Greber  MIDDLETOWN  --  Underground gas lines and nearby Norfolk Southern Railroad tracks are making the cleanup of a 10,000-gallon diesel fuel spill difficult, officials from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.
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INDUSTRY, Pa. - A motorboat crashed into a gate at a western Pennsylvania dam, killing two people, emergency dispatchers said.  A third person survived after the boat got hung up on the Montgomery Dam gate Sunday night on the Ohio River near Industry.
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Salvage crews made little progress Wednesday in their attempts to remove the wreckage of three barges and restore traffic on a 42-mile section of the Ohio River.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 6--GULFPORT -- An Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation of the March 21 drowning of two construction workers in a storm-damaged casino barge could result in fines exceeding $85,000.
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By Amy Burroughs, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 10-- -- Divers continued Friday to wait for the current of the Ohio River to slow before attempting to retrieve a tugboat that sank Jan. 19.
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By The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 26--A pesticide spill shut down westbound lanes of Interstate-635 near Plano Road for about three hours Monday morning.   Fire officials said the road reopened about 10 a.m.   Lt.
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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.
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An oil spill has closed the U.S. Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, six miles west of Lake Charles, Louisiana, said the U.S. Coast Guard on Monday.
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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - A valve on a truck hauling animal waste from a Klamath Falls processing plant broke, spilling 4,000 pounds of pig blood. A biohazards cleaning company from Prineville was called in to clean up about 200 feet of roadway flooded by the blood.