Spills
Pulaski highway abandoned drums; service road, pulaski highway, baltimore, maryland
NOAAORR-7040
- issued
- 1994-08-23 00:00Z
- status
- cancelled 1994-09-06 00:00Z
- self-cancels
- 1994-09-06 00:00Z
- authority
- NOAA OR&R
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 39.200, -76.583
- source
- incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z
Original warning text
Pulaski Highway Abandoned Drums; Service Road, Pulaski Highway, Baltimore, Maryland. Service Road, Pulaski Highway, Baltimore, Maryland. 1. On August 23, 1994, MSO Baltimore was notified that thirteen 55-gallon drums, possibly containing contaminated waste oil and an old home-heating oil tank were taken from a flat-bed trailer and abandoned on a service road in the 3500 block of the Pulaski Highway. Several of the drums were labeled "miscellaneous oils". A storm drain 100 feet away from the site fed into a tributary to the Patapsco River. These onscene observations by OSC representatives suggested that the drums posed an immediate threat to the environment and should be removed. USCG district 5. Keyword: none. 2. COMMODITY: UNKNOWN OIL (POSSIBLY) CHEMICAL IN DRUMS. 3. POSITION 39.200N 076.583W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 7040: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/7040
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Timeline · 3 messages since 1994-08-17 · closed 1994-09-30
- Pier #2 minor outfall mystery spill; clinton street, baltimore, maryland1994-08-17 → 1994-08-31
- Pulaski highway abandoned drums; service road, pulaski highway, baltimore, maryland this message1994-08-23 → 1994-09-06
- Dundalk outfall minor mystery spill; colgate creek, dundalk, maryland1994-09-16 → 1994-09-30
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