BARGE OB-5

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   Spills·NOAAORR-80972009-09-17 00:00Z → cancelled 2009-10-01 00:00Z
   Crowley barge 160-1; quinhagak, alaska
   Bering Sea

   Crowley Barge 160-1; Quinhagak, Alaska.
   Quinhagak, Alaska.
   1. Crowley Barge 160-1 ran aground near Quinhagak, AK, just south of the mouth of the Kuskokwim River on Sept. 16, 2009, as the result of navigation error during a normal fuel delivery to the village of Quinhagak. The barge has 72,000 gallons of gasoline and 72,000 gallons of Jet fuel. The barge is a 1968 single skin barge. The grounded barge had gone through two tidal cycles, during which the tug could not pull it off the bottom, prior to notifying CG Sector Anchorage on Sept. 17. No fuel has been released into the the environment. The CG requested that the NOAA SSC provide weather and tidal information. Shortly after the grounding a second barge, the OB-5, was summoned from Bethel 80 miles to the north. Barge OB-5 was able to liter 60,000 gallons of Jet fuel from barge 160-1 and delivered 55,000 gallons to tanks at Quinhagak. Upon returning to 160-1, barge OB-5 itself grounded just west [...]
   2. THREAT: OIL. COMMODITY: GASOLINE AND JET FUEL. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 144000 GALLONS. TAGS: GROUNDING.
   3. POSITION 59.750N 161.917W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 8097: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/8097