BARGE Annahootz Spilled

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   Spills·NOAAORR-70421994-09-01 00:00Z → cancelled 1994-09-15 00:00Z
   Port of anchorage
   T/b Annahootz; Port of Anchorage · Gulf of Alaska

   T/B Annahootz; Port of Anchorage.
   Port of Anchorage.
   1. On the morning of September 1, 1994, the barge Annahootz spilled approximately 500 gallons of diesel into Cook Inlet while onloading at the Port of Anchorage. The spill occurred when oil flowed up through the No. 1 port expansion trunk and sounding tube saturating the barge's wooden deck. The response was initiated by Forty-Niner Transportation, the responsible party; but Verca, a local spill contractor, was hired to complete the response. The oil moved under the dock and out the north end in response to a back eddy from the ebbing tide. Containment boom and sorbents were deployed around the barge and at the north end of the dock. Sheen extended north along the shore 50 to 100 yards offshore from near the dock to the vicinity of Cairn Point. Overflight observers reported isolated ribbons and stringers of sheen with no more than 50 gallons of diesel on the water near Cairn Point and no [...]
   2. COMMODITY: DIESEL. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 500 GALLONS.
   3. POSITION 61.083N 150.000W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 7042: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/7042