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Date: Nov.17, 2007
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Federal, State and Local Agencies Respond to Oil Spill ***Photos and Video are available for download below.*** JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Federal, state and local agencies have been working to minimize impact of an oil spill from an 396-foot container ship on the Amelia River, Fla., at the Nassau Terminal in Fernandina, Fla. The spill was reported after oil and water overflowed from a ballast water tank on the motor vessel Seaboard Rio Haina. Coast Guard and Florida Department Environmental Protection officials conducted extensive searches throughout the day of the Amelia River and surrounding waterways with Coast Guard small boats and aircraft. Members of the Nassau County Emergency Management and Fernandina Beach Fire Rescue conducted shoreline assessments and found no areas with significant pollution impact. A small area of oil was found in the vicinity of Rayonier Reach in the Amelia River. The oil, along with several other small sheens in that area were quickly recovered by Jacksonville Pollution Control. There have been no other sightings or reports of oil in the water. Jacksonville Pollution Control also cleaned all of the oil from the decks of the ship and placed containment boom around it in case any other oil leaks into the water. Coast Guard inspectors continue to investigate the exact cause of the spill. The Seaboard Rio Haina has been ordered to stay in port until the investigation is finished and any required remedial action is completed. Cargo operations were permitted to resume but only to gain access to the ballast and fuel tanks of interest to the investigation. The Coast Guard will conduct periodic patrols throughout the area on Sunday. The public should report any further sightings to the National Response Center at 1-800-424-8802.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Coast Guard pollution investigator inspects a oil barrel aboard the container vessel Seaboard Rio Haina after an unknown amount of fuel oil and water over flowed from one of its ballast tanks on to the deck of the ship and into the water near Nassau Terminal in Fernandina Beach, Fla. Local, state and federal agencies responded to the incident and determined that there was minimum environmental impact by the oil. The vessel has been detained at the Nassau Terminal until Coast Guard pollution investigators can determine the cause of the spill. Coast Guard photo/video by PAC Donnie Brzuska, PADET Jacksonville, Fla.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Coast Guard pollution investigator reviews a sample taken during a sounding aboard the container vessel Seaboard Rio Haina after an unknown amount of fuel oil and water over flowed from one of its ballast tanks on to the deck of the ship and into the water near Nassau Terminal in Fernandina Beach, Fla. Local, state and federal agencies responded to the incident and determined that there was minimum environmental impact by the oil. The vessel has been detained at the Nassau Terminal until Coast Guard pollution investigators can determine the cause of the spill. Coast Guard photo/video by PAC Donnie Brzuska, PADET Jacksonville, Fla.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The container vessel Seaboard Rio Haina after an unknown amount of fuel oil and water over flowed from one of its ballast tanks on to the deck of the ship and into the water near Nassau Terminal in Fernandina Beach, Fla. Local, state and federal agencies responded to the incident and determined that there was minimum environmental impact by the oil. The vessel has been detained at the Nassau Terminal until Coast Guard pollution investigators can determine the cause of the spill. Coast Guard photo/video by PA2 Bobby Nash, PADET Jacksonville, Fla.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Fuel oil marks streak down the side of the container vessel Seaboard Rio Haina after an unknown amount of fuel oil and water over flowed from one of its ballast tanks on to the deck of the ship and into the water near Nassau Terminal in Fernandina Beach, Fla. Local, state and federal agencies responded to the incident and determined that there was minimum environmental impact by the oil. The vessel has been detained at the Nassau Terminal until Coast Guard pollution investigators can determine the cause of the spill. Coast Guard photo/video by PA2 Bobby Nash, PADET Jacksonville, Fla.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A crew from Jacksonville Pollution Control clean up oil near the container vessel Seaboard Rio Haina after an unknown amount of fuel oil and water over flowed from one of its ballast tanks on to the deck of the ship and into the water near Nassau Terminal in Fernandina Beach, Fla. Local, state and federal agencies responded to the incident and determined that there was minimum environmental impact by the oil. The vessel has been detained at the Nassau Terminal until Coast Guard pollution investigators can determine the cause of the spill. Coast Guard photo/video by PAC Donnie Brzuska, PADET Jacksonville, Fla. ###
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