30,000 Gallons of Crude Leak Into Delaware River
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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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Divers found a six-foot gash on the tanker that leaked 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River, creating a 20-mile-long slick that killed dozens of birds and threatened other wildlife, officials said Sunday.
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By TOM GORDON SCOTTISH POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT  A COMPANY hoping to transfer millions of tonnes of crude oil in the Firth of Forth yesterday admitted being a party in the spillage of 35,000 gallons of oil in 1995.
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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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The Big Dig highway project in downtown Boston is riddled with leaks dumping millions of gallons of water into the &#36;14.6 billion tunnel system, according to an engineer hired to investigate the cause of a massive leak in September.
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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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Most of the 2,000 people forced to evacuate after a 22,000-gallon railroad tanker leaked chemicals into a creek and sewer system were permitted to return home Friday.
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By Bloomberg, AP and Staff Reports  ConocoPhillips had a leak in a pipe at its refinery in Wilmington, Calif., a state government Web site reported Thursday.
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Muddy, coffee-colored floodwaters poured into homes, basements and stores on both sides of the Delaware River and rose as high as the street signs Thursday in some of the worst flooding to hit the Northeast in decades. At least 16 deaths were blamed on the deluge.
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Coast Guard officials investigating a massive oil spill in the Delaware River said the tanker likely struck a hidden hazard a few hundred feet from shore, according to a published report.
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Limited shipping could resume on the Delaware River south of Philadelphia as early as today after an oil spill late last week halted vessels, the US Coast Guard said.
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A tanker spilled about 114,000 litres of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, creating a 32-kilometre-long slick that killed dozens of birds and threatened other wildlife, US officials said
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By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer, The Associated Press. The spill _ the worst on the river in nearly a decade _ stranded commercial vessels trying to move goods through the busy Port of Philadelphia
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Up to 200,000 people in the Wilkes-Barre area were ordered to evacuate their homes Wednesday because of rising water on the Susquehanna River, swelled by a record-breaking deluge that has killed at least 12 people across the Northeast.
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PHILADELPHIA A big gash has been found on the tanker that caused the Delaware River&#39;s worst oil spill in nearly a decade. Divers have found a six-foot cut on the ship, plus holes in two tanks.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 10--DURHAM -- A sewer main overflowed Thursday morning, spilling 10,000 gallons of sewage, some into Northeast Creek. The overflow happened in South Durham, near the intersection of Interstate 40 and the Durham Freeway.
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By Daily Mail photo by Craig Cunningham  Emergency officials from throughout the Kanawha Valley set up a drill on the Kanawha River in downtown Charleston today to practice cleanup techniques for gasoline spills. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Marathon Petroleum Co.