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TexasTowelie

(112,204 posts) Sun Mar 30, 2014, 05:36 PM Mar 2014

Oil from Galveston spill arrives near Corpus Christi

Tar balls washed up in Mustang Island State Park Sunday as oil from last week's spill in Galveston Bay continues to slide down the coast.

Lt. Tyrone Conner of the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed clean-up crews were dispatched to the popular camping and swimming spot on the barrier island near Corpus Christi, about 200 miles from the site of the March 22 spill.

"The tar balls are about the size of a quarter up to 3 inches," Conner said.

Nearly 170,000 gallons of bunker fuel spilled in Galveston Bay when a barge collided with a tug boat last Saturday. Currents and winds pulled some of the spill out into the Gulf. Federal and state officials said they are tracking the slick's movement.

More at http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Oil-from-Galveston-spill-arrives-near-Corpus-5361520.php?cmpid=bna , including photos.

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Oil from Galveston spill arrives near Corpus Christi (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2014 OP

It's a shame the Spring Breakers are going to miss seeing this. Ilsa Mar 2014 #1

If money is their idol Gman Mar 2014 #2

Nothing new for TX Miigwech Mar 2014 #3

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)

1. It's a shame the Spring Breakers are going to miss seeing this.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Mar 30, 2014, 05:52 PM

Mar 2014

They need a good dose of it so they won't grow up to be corporate assholes.

Gman

(24,780 posts)

2. If money is their idol

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 30, 2014, 06:21 PM

Mar 2014

They'll do it anyway.

Miigwech

(3,741 posts)

3. Nothing new for TX

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Mar 30, 2014, 07:57 PM

Mar 2014

When I lived in TX I took a vacation down to Corpus Christi and to Galveston. I was used to going to beaches on Cape Cod, MA - NJ - Long Island, NY - you know, the East Coast Blue States. Every time I came out of the water in TX I had tar balls from oil stuck on my feet. They even had foot washing stations so you could wash off the oil - not just washing off sand, so you can put on your shoes, like the have at clean beaches. I never went back. Texas beaches are an environmental shat hole. God luck with that TX. That is what they want - oil and more oil and not clean Gulf Coast waters.

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