Spills · chemical
Lavaca bay, tx
Sunken Barge With Smelter Grade Aluminum; Lavaca Bay, Tx · NOAAORR-1192
- issued
- 2004-07-14 00:00Z
- status
- cancelled 2004-07-28 00:00Z
- self-cancels
- 2004-07-28 00:00Z
- authority
- NOAA OR&R
- sea
- Gulf of Mexico
- position
- 28.647, -96.556
- source
- incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z
Original warning text
Sunken Barge with Smelter Grade Aluminum; Lavaca Bay, TX. Lavaca Bay, TX. 1. On Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 0915 the NOAA ASSC received a call from MSO Corpus Christi discussing a barge which sunk on July 13 around 1800. The hopper barge, which contained 1,456 metric tons of smelting grade Alumina (aka SGA, UN# 3170) in a fine powder form, sank off Port Lavaca, TX in the Alcoa fleeting area, Lat 28d 38.804N Long 096d 33.383W. The aluminum was removed from the barge. No impacts to the environment were observed. 2. THREAT: CHEMICAL. COMMODITY: ALUMINUM. 3. POSITION 28.647N 096.556W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 1192: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/1192
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