{"id":241103,"date":"2010-01-27T21:15:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T02:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128771d948e970c"},"modified":"2010-01-27T22:07:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T03:07:25","slug":"672-gallon-oil-spill-fouls-huntington-beach-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/241103","title":{"rendered":"672-gallon oil spill fouls Huntington Beach channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/br> Crews are working to clean up an oil spill that dumped an estimated 672 gallons of crude oil last week into a Huntington Beach flood-control channel that drains to wetlands and the Pacific Ocean, authorities said today. <\/p>\n

After getting reports of a petroleum odor Jan. 21, the Orange County Public Works crews a day later discovered the spill in the Huntington Beach Channel east of Beach Boulevard and south of Adams Avenue, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. <\/p>\n

"There was oil all the way across the channel from wall to wall," said Robert Wise, Federal On-Scene Coordinator<\/span> with the EPA. "As the tide went in and out it just sloshed the oil up and down the walls of the channel." <\/p>\n

The oil traveled 1.8 miles downstream, but it did not reach the Talbert wetlands or the ocean, Wise said. <\/p>\n

A contractor hired by the county is cleaning up the spill by placing containment barriers in the 50-foot wide, steel-lined channel and using vacuum trucks, absorbent materials and power washers to remove the oil. <\/p>\n

So far, Wise said, crews have recovered about one-eighth of the oil. The cleanup is expected to take about three weeks. <\/p>\n

For updates on the cleanup, check the EPA’s website at www.epaosc.org\/hboil<\/a>. <\/p>\n

To report any animals with oil on them, call the Oiled Wildlife Care Network Center at (877) UCD-OWCN. <\/p>\n

–Tony Barboza in Orange County<\/p>\n

Photo: Oil sticks to a pipe and flows down the Talbert Channel near Atlanta Avenue in Huntington Beach. Credit: Allen J. Schaben \/ Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crews are working to clean up an oil spill that dumped an estimated 672 gallons of crude oil last week into a Huntington Beach flood-control channel that drains to wetlands and the Pacific Ocean, authorities said today. After getting reports of a petroleum odor Jan. 21, the Orange County Public Works crews a day later […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}