Spills · marine_debris
Newark, md, USA
Medical Waste: Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware Shorelines · NOAAORR-10852
- issued
- 2024-09-16 00:00Z
- status
- cancelled 2024-09-30 00:00Z
- self-cancels
- 2024-09-30 00:00Z
- authority
- NOAA OR&R
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 38.196, -75.159
- source
- incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z
Original warning text
Medical Waste: Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware Shorelines. Newark, MD, USA. 1. On 16 September 2024, the State of Maryland notified the NOAA SSC about medical wastes coming ashore on Maryland's beaches. Also received USCG reports about medical wastes coming ashore along the northern beaches of Virgina, specifically the Assateague/Chincoteague area. Maryland OSC requested a hindcast. 2. THREAT: OTHER. COMMODITY: MARINE DEBRIS. TAGS: MARINE DEBRIS. 3. POSITION 38.196N 075.159W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 10852: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/10852
This area · spills & pollution incidents
546 within 180 nm since 1972 · 10 in the last 12 months · 0 in force now
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Nearby now · within 120 nm
Nothing else in force within 120 nm.
Worldwide now
8 spills & pollution incidents in force · see all
Spills
Oil and chemical spills, groundings and vessel casualties with a pollution threat: NOAA IncidentNews responses since 1957, and spill-response areas broadcast as navigational warnings. All current spills & pollution incidents →
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