Blair waterway, tacoma, washington

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M/V Nosac Forest; Blair Waterway, Tacoma, Washington.
Blair Waterway, Tacoma, Washington.
1. At 0800 on April 21, 1993, MSO Puget Sound was notified that the forward tank of the M/V Nosac Forest had been overfilled while bunkering at the Pierce County Terminal in Tacoma, WA. Approximately 200 gallons of IFO 380 was spilled into the Blair Waterway. It was later determined that approximately 4,000 gallons of fuel were spilled into the water, 1,500 gallons were contained on the deck, and 14,000 gallons were spilled and contained in the engine room bilges when a valve broke. Personnel from the barge supplying the fuel quickly deployed a boom around the vessel to contain the spill and began skimming the oil. At 2030, a shoreline survey found a 3,000-foot section of the northeast waterway shoreline covered with a two-foot wide ribbon of oil. An overflight the following morning saw pockets of black oil trapped at the east end of the waterway, with heavy rainbow sheen and emulsified [...]
2. COMMODITY: IFO 380. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 200 GALLONS.
3. POSITION 47.267N 122.367W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6939: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6939