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About 215 gallons of oil from an unknown source washed ashore at Broadkill Beach in Delaware in October 2020. Julie McCall was surveying Beach Plum Island when she saw blobs of oil. (Courtesy of Julie McCall)
Crystal Stokowski just wants to know one thing: Who spilled the oil along Broadkill Beach?
A surfer and former resident of Oahu, Stokowski is a member of the Surfrider Foundation she and her family visit the beach almost daily, even during the off-season. But last fall, an oil spill disrupted that.
“You could smell and see the oil wash up,” she wrote in an email to WHYY News. “So many surfer friends who still kept going out had heaps of oil stuck to their boards and wetsuits.” ....

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