Spills · pipeline
Mississippi river delta, la
Garden Island Bay; Mississippi River Delta, la · NOAAORR-7652
- issued
- 2007-05-30 00:00Z
- status
- cancelled 2007-06-13 00:00Z
- self-cancels
- 2007-06-13 00:00Z
- authority
- NOAA OR&R
- sea
- Gulf of Mexico
- position
- 29.073, -89.179
- source
- incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z
Original warning text
Garden Island Bay; Mississippi River Delta, LA. Mississippi River Delta, LA. 1. Following Hurricane Katrina, oil pollution was observed in the area of Garden Island Bay (part of the Louisiana Mississippi River Delta). The initial response was included as one of more than one hundred small pollution cases investigated during the post-hurricane response under ESF-10. Subsequently, this site was been identified as a chronic source of oil pollution that may be derived from some historical, subsurface oil spill incident that wasn't observed until after the hurricane eroded much of the marsh in SE Louisiana. A possible source is a submerged pipeline. The USCG has requested renewed assistance from NOAA in this investigation. 2. THREAT: OIL. COMMODITY: CRUDE OIL. TAGS: PIPELINE. 3. POSITION 29.073N 089.179W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 7652: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/7652
This area · spills & pollution incidents
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- Crude oil spill and in-situ burn at tpic; south pass 24, pilottown, louisiana2026-08-26
- 8X38+5H dauphin island, al, USA2026-08-24
- Mystery sheen at south pass 29; port eads, louisiana2026-08-13
- Wcc oil spill, main pass 21; breton sound, louisiana2026-06-11
- Tpic oil spill, main pass 81; gulf of america2026-06-10
- Oil spill from out-of-service tank at tpic main pass 69 facility; louisiana2026-05-19
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Timeline · 6 messages since 2007-05-17 · closed 2007-08-12
- South pass 24 flowline spill; mississippi delta, la2007-05-17 → 2007-05-31
- Grand bay tank battery #12; mississippi delta la2007-05-23 → 2007-06-06
- Chandelier islands, la2007-05-25 → 2007-06-08
- Mississippi river delta, la this message2007-05-30 → 2007-06-13
- Diesel spill breton sound; 2 nm from breton is, la2007-06-29 → 2007-07-13
- Mp 21 platform allision and oil spill; breton sound gom, la2007-07-29 → 2007-08-12
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