Spills · oil
Deer park, tx
Waste Oil Discharge, Tucker's Bayou; Deer Park, Tx · NOAAORR-10784
- issued
- 2024-05-11 00:00Z
- status
- cancelled 2024-05-25 00:00Z
- self-cancels
- 2024-05-25 00:00Z
- authority
- NOAA OR&R
- sea
- Gulf of Mexico
- position
- 29.733, -95.098
- source
- incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z
Original warning text
Waste Oil Discharge, Tucker's Bayou; Deer Park, TX. Deer Park, TX. 1. On May 11, 2024, an unknown amount of waste oil from tank washings was discharged into Tucker's Bayou, a sub-estuary of Buffalo Bayou (aka Upper Houston Ship Channel) NRC#1398647. Oil-water mixture discharged from a drainage culvert into a heavily vegetated area in the upper end of the Tucker Bayou drainage. Sector Houston-Galveston notified NOAA SSC, and requested assistance with identifying potential listed species on-site and recommendations for clean-up methods. 2. THREAT: OIL. COMMODITY: WASTE OIL. 3. POSITION 29.733N 095.098W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 10784: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/10784
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Timeline · 2 messages since 2024-05-11 · closed 2024-05-29
- Deer park, tx this message2024-05-11 → 2024-05-25
- Galveston, tx, USA2024-05-15 → 2024-05-29
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