(16 May 2024)
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Galveston, Texas – 16 May 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Rick Freed, vice president of Martin Marine:
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"At approximately 10 a.m. on Wednesday, the barge MMLP-321 collided with the Pelican Island Bridge due to a break in the coupling. The collision caused one of the cargo tanks to be compromised and the vacuum gas oil spilled to the water. The amount is still being determined, but the source has been contained."
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Galveston, Texas – 15 May 2024
2. Various close aerials of crashed barge
3. Aerial of crew setting up a perimeter in the water, oil in the water
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Galveston, Texas – 16 May 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Capt. Keith Donohue, Coast Guard:
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"We’re pretty confident there was a much less oil introduced to the water than we initially estimated. We’re estimating between 1,000, 2,000 gallons, but we will not have details on that until we get a final survey from the vessel. We’ve recovered over 605 gallons of oily water mixture from the environment, as well as an additional 6,000, 5,640 gallons of oil product from the top of the barge that did not go into, into the water."
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Galveston, Texas – 15 May 2024
5. Aerial of oil in the water
6. Aerial of bridge, crashed barge
STORYLINE:
Early estimates indicate up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday.
The barge crashed into a pillar supporting the Pelican Island Causeway span on Wednesday.
The impact caused the bridge to partially collapse and cut off the only road connecting Galveston to Pelican Island, the Coast Guard said.
Video shows splotches of oil had spilled from the barge into Galveston Bay.
State officials said early cleanup efforts have not identified any impacted wildlife.
“We’re pretty confident there was much less oil introduced to the water than we initially estimated,” Coast Guard Capt. Keith Donohue said during a news conference Thursday afternoon.
“We’ve recovered over 605 gallons of oily water mixture from the environment, as well as an additional 5,640 gallons of oil product from the top of the barge that did not go into the water,” Donohue said.
The Coast Guard said earlier that it deployed a boom, or barrier, to contain the spill, which had forced the closure of about 6.5 miles (10.5 kilometers) of the waterway.
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