During the evening news of december 28, 1990, a vinton-area television station ran a story about an oil…

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Vinton Drainage Canal; Vinton, Louisiana.
Vinton, Louisiana.
1. During the evening news of December 28, 1990, a Vinton-area television station ran a story about an oil spill in the Vinton Canal approximately 5 miles south of Vinton, Louisiana. The program did not identify the source of the spill, but showed birds, including a blue heron, fishing the area. The news report indicated that the spill was large, possibly major. U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) personnel tried to verify the story, without success, beyond identifying the general area of the spill as the Vinton Canal near where it enters the Intracoastal Waterway. Public interest in the spill was intense. The USCG Marine Safety Office (MSO) Port Arthur, Texas continued to receive telephone calls about a spill on the canal covering an area as large as 2 miles long and shore-to-shore in the approximately 100-foot wide cut. USCG investigators from the Marine Safety Detachment (MSD) Lake Charles, [...]
2. COMMODITY: YELLOW AND GREEN SUBSTANCE.
3. POSITION 30.192N 093.579W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6779: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6779