20,000 gallons of fuel spill after barge hits South Texas dock
Wednesday October 12, 2016
Cmdr. Keith Pierre says nobody was hurt and the barge was no longer leaking Wednesday at a site on the Intracoastal Waterway near Port Isabel.
Authorities are trying to determine what caused the Capt. Jim Green on Tuesday night to hit the dock at the Subsea 7 facility - the intended destination. The Coast Guard had no further details on the load of low sulfur diesel fuel.
Pierre had no reports of wildlife being impacted.
A Coast Guard statement says Miller Environmental was on the scene Wednesday for air monitoring and recovery operations. Coast Guard aircraft were being used to survey the scene.