M/V Ellen Knutsen

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   Spills·NOAAORR-69341993-03-31 00:00Z → cancelled 1993-04-14 00:00Z
   At 0003 march 31, 1993, the uscg mso philadelphia was notified by tioga marine terminal of an acetone-like…
   M/V Ellen Knutsen; Philadelphia, Pa · Philadelphia, Pa · North Atlantic Ocean

   M/V Ellen Knutsen; Philadelphia, PA.
   Philadelphia, PA.
   1. At 0003 March 31, 1993, the USCG MSO Philadelphia was notified by Tioga Marine Terminal of an acetone-like odor in the area. There were partly cloudy skies, winds east 5 to 10 knots, with a temperature of 60?F at the time of the incident. MSO personnel estimated that between 32,000 to 600,000 gallons of cumene had been released from the M/V Ellen Knutsen into the Delaware River. The 442-foot Ellen Knutsen was docked at the GATX terminal in Port Richmond, PA just south of the Betsy Ross Bridge on the Delaware River. The source of the release was a two-inch crack between the #5 starboard segregated ballast tank and the #10S cargo tank that permitted cargo to leak into the adjacent ballast tank. The ballast-cumene mixture discharged into the Delaware River during deballasting. The spill spread as far downstream as Camden, NJ and upstream to near the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge. GATX personnel [...]
   2. COMMODITY: CUMENE. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 16000 GALLONS.
   3. POSITION 40.000N 075.067W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6934: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6934