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Chevron Oil Spill Item On City Council Agenda Tuesday Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail RICHMOND (BCN) The petroleum product spill last week at the Chevron refinery long wharf in Richmond will be on the agenda when the Richmond City Council meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. An agenda item placed by Councilmember Claudia Jimenez asks city staff to request representatives from the Chevron Richmond Refinery, the United States Coast Guard, San Francisco Baykeeper, California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and the (state) Office of Spill Recovery and Response to appear at the City Council meeting on Feb. 23 to present reports on the causes, responses and probable impacts of the spill incident. ....
RICHMOND, Calif. (KGO) Chevron is now saying the material that leaked from one of its pipelines into San Francisco Bay Tuesday was some combination of water and petroleum material, perhaps gasoline or diesel fuel. However, it s awaiting lab results. Initial estimates had the spill at about 600 gallons, but a Chevron spokesperson said that is likely to change. So far, according to Contra Costa County Public Health and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, there have been no reports of health or environmental impacts. We don t know exactly what it is yet, said Linsi Crain, Manager of Corporate Affairs for the Richmond Refinery. That is a pipeline that takes water products like gasoline and diesel and also oil to and from ships, so we are putting that through a lab. ....
RICHMOND, Calif. The Chevron refinery in Richmond is investigating an oil spill Tuesday afternoon, according to city and county officials. The spill happened in what s called the Long Wharf off Point Richmond, where a sheen can be seen on the top of the water at Bear Point. It was first noticed around 3 p.m. It smelled like somebody spilled gasoline in front of my house it smelled very very badly for whole day, said Margaret Berczynski, who is furious that no text alert went out about the spill. Everyone was quick to talk about the smell, I smelled it and I thought something is going on, said Sue Dennett. ....
RICHMOND, Calif. (KGO) The Chevron refinery in Richmond is investigating an oil spill Tuesday afternoon, according to city and county officials. The spill happened in what s called the Long Wharf off Point Richmond, where a sheen can be seen on the top of the water at Bear Point. It was first noticed around 3 p.m. It smelled like somebody spilled gasoline in front of my house it smelled very very badly for whole day, said Margaret Berczynski, who is furious that no text alert went out about the spill. Everyone was quick to talk about the smell, I smelled it and I thought something is going on, said Sue Dennett. ....
RICHMOND, Calif. The Chevron refinery in Richmond is investigating an oil spill Tuesday afternoon, according to city and county officials. The spill happened in what s called the Long Wharf off Point Richmond, where a sheen can be seen on the top of the water at Bear Point. It was first noticed around 3 p.m. It smelled like somebody spilled gasoline in front of my house it smelled very very badly for whole day, said Margaret Berczynski, who is furious that no text alert went out about the spill. Everyone was quick to talk about the smell, I smelled it and I thought something is going on, said Sue Dennett. ....