BARGE SFI 61 RAN

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• Spills · 2 messages1989-02-14 → 1989-03-01Off morgan city, louisiana

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   Spills·NOAAORR-66641989-02-14 00:00Z → cancelled 1989-02-28 00:00Z
   Barge sfi 61; houma, louisiana
   Gulf of Mexico

   Barge SFI 61; Houma, Louisiana.
   Houma, Louisiana.
   1. On February 6, 1989, the barge SFI 61 ran aground while being moved on the Intracoastal Waterway near Houma, Louisiana, spilling an estimated 500 barrels of a potential 6,000 barrels of number 6 fuel oil. Efforts to stop the fuel leak and contain the spill began shortly thereafter. Cool temperatures and rainy weather hampered containment and cleanup, and the oil began disappearing below the surface of the canal. Cleanup operations were discontinued a week later when approximately 150 barrels of the material had been recovered from a six-mile section of the waterway. However, during the next few days, daytime temperatures increased with clearing skies and the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Office (MSO), Morgan City, was inundated with spill reports from up and down the Intracoastal Waterway near Houma. USCG district 8.
   2. COMMODITY: NUMBER 6 FUEL OIL. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 21000 GALLONS.
   3. POSITION 29.554N 090.704W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6664: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6664