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Fuel spill brings Coast Guard, environmental agencies to Maurice River

LEESBURG – The Coast Guard and environmental agencies are monitoring a marine diesel fuel spill from an off-shore supply vessel anchored in the Maurice River. The spill, just south of Leesburg, was reported about 9 a.m. Wednesday, said Lt. Cmdr. Fredrick Pugh, chief of incident management for Sector Delaware Bay. The Coast Guard, the state Department of Environmental Protection, and Cumberland County environmental representatives responded to area. An oil spill response organization focused containment and cleanup in the affected area.  “We have the spill source contained,” Pugh said when contacted Wednesday evening. “We have the area around it cordoned off with boom.”

Coast Guard responds to diesel fuel spill in South Jersey river

Coast Guard responds to diesel fuel spill in South Jersey river Updated May 12, 2021; Posted May 12, 2021 An MH-65 Dolphin aircrew from Coast Guard Atlantic City conducts an overflight of a marine diesel fuel spill from a motor vessel operating in the Maurice River, N.J., May 12, 2021. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Released)U.S. Coast Guard photo/Released Facebook Share Crews on Wednesday were working to contain a marine diesel fuel spill in the Maurice River in Cumberland County, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The spill from a vessel was reported in Leesburg, a section of Maurice River Township, according to officials.

Who spilled oil along Delaware s Broadkill Beach?

WHYY By 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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