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Cleanup crews for the unified command have cleared oily debris and tar balls from a significant stretch of coastline from the southern side of the Indian River Inlet in Delaware to the Assateague Island State Park in Maryland.
100 pounds of oily tar globs cleaned from Delaware beach WATCH: Raw video of Delaware beach oil spill Replay Video UP NEXT Nearly three months after an unknown spill sent heavy fuel oil floating up and down the coastline of Delaware and Maryland, globs of tar are still turning up. The 100 pounds of oily debris collected from Towers Beach south of Dewey on Wednesday were certainly from the same oil spill, said Lt. Cmdr. Frederick Pugh, chief of incident management for the Delaware Bay Coast Guard. © Image courtesy: Petty Officer 3rd Class Isaac Cross/U.S. Coast Guard District 5 A mem...
The Coast Guard and Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control confirmed it is responding to a report of oil on Towers Beach in Dewey.
U.S. Sen. Tom Carper, center, talks with a crew from Lewis Environmental as they clean tar from the beach at Tower Road, south of Dewey Beach, on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Additional reports of oiled debris on the beach there were made on Monday, Jan. 18, with cleanup of about 100 pounds of debris completed on Jan. 20.Coastal Point | Kerin Magill The U.S. Coast Guard and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control (DNREC) reported on Wednesday afternoon that cleanup efforts in response to a report of oil on Towers Beach near Dewey Beach had been completed. The oiled ...