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2:35 pm
Does anyone know the details of this oil spill in the Delaware? I heard on the radio this morning that 60 miles of the river may be destroyed! Can the tide bring the oil up the local creeks? Has anything been released about the clean-up efforts? I don't have access to a boat that can handle the river but I do have a day or two that I can take off next week. If anyone hears about any volunteer efforts with the Coast Guard, DEP, or USFWS please let me know.
Matt
5:51 pm
I spoke to someone over at NJ Div. of Fish and Wildlife about the river cleanup. She said they are welcoming volunteers and forwarded me to the spill hotline. My girlfriend and I and a few friends are planning to head over this weekend to help out. If anyone's interested the number is (215) 365 -1558. It seems like its always busy but eventually you'll get through. I'm supposed to get a call back with the details.
11:53 pm
recieved this in my e-mail yesterday,thought it was worth posting.
The States of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey, working in concert
with the federal response agencies, US Coast Guard, USFWS and NOAA are
issuing an advisory effective immediately to waterfowl hunters and
anglers to refrain from hunting and boating the Delaware River and
tributaries south of the Tacony Palmyra Bridge until further notice.
The purpose of this advisory is to prevent the transport of oil by
anglers, hunters and boaters to uncontaminated areas and to preclude
waterfowl from inadvertently being flushed from inland roosting and
resting areas out into portions of the Delaware River that may be
impacted by the oil spill from the Athos 1. This will also provide
refuges for waterfowl in unoiled areas where they will they will
hopefully remain if undisturbed.
Specific advisories are as follows.
In Delaware: the advisory area includes the area east of Route 13, from
and including the Blackbird Creek south of Odessa north to the Delaware
and Pennsylvania border. The Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife has
already acted to close State-designated waterfowl hunting areas on the
Augustine Wildlife Area, the Lang Farm and a portion of The Rocks Tract
of the Cedar Swamp Wildlife Area until further notice.
In New Jersey: the advisory area includes the area from the
Tacony-Palmyra
Bridge east on Route 73 to the junction with the New Jersey Turnpike.
South on the NJ Turnpike to the junction with Route 322. East on Route
322 to Route 45. South on Route 45 to Route 581. South on Route 581 to
Route 49. East on Route 49 to Route 654 West. Route 654 West to Route
651. Route 651 to Route 623. Left on Route 623 to Route 658. Right on
Route 658 straight onto Alloway Creek Neck Road to the Salem Nuclear
Power Plant.
In Pennsylvania: the advisory area includes the Delaware River south of
the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge (Route 73) including Darby Creek, Little
Tinicum Island and the tidal marshes around the Philadelphia
International Airport.
To read the web version of this information, click on the following
link:
4:20 am
June 23, 2004
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I'm in the spill response business and here's what I've heard. The companies working on the spill (there are over 1000 environmental techs working) have boomed off most creeks and feeders to the Big D to keep any of the crude from going upstream. The oil that spilled was crude oil, basically an unrefined liquid tar that is as nasty as it gets. They are talking about 4-12 weeks worth of work to try to get this thing under control. There are over 60 miles of river affected.
Now the good news.
This happened at the best time of the year. Most of the anadromous fish have left the river and are safely in the salt. The full brunt of the winter and spring floods will do a lot of natural cleaning.
Now the bad news.
The river will smell like oil for years to come (mostly from the stuff that washed on shore). When crude gets on cold stone and gravel it turns into tar, and most of you know what that's like to try to remove from anything. Thousands of birds and probably hundreds of thousands of fish will be affected...
Capt. Dieter Scheel http://www.BigDRiverGuide.com
4:12 pm
April 17, 2011
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Just read in the Trenton Times this morning that they are now estimating 200k-470k gallons of oil were spilled, not the 30k originally estimated (see J.B. Kasper's article). Also overheard one person at the forum yesterday mentioning that there was a prop from a prior ship wreck that may have caused the accident.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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