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A fishing boat captain said he went through the slick yesterday and it was strong enough to make his eyes burn.
Coast Guard: Gulf substance is likely sediment
The Coast Guard says a miles-long patch of discolored goop floating in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be caused by river sediment.
The Coast Guard tested the patch Sunday and found only trace amounts of petroleum that were well below the state of Louisiana's standard for clean water. A news release says The Coast Guard believes the discoloration is the result of sediments brought down the Mississippi River.
Originally posted by Pharyax
Found info on the 'earthquake' in Florida:
Groundwater Level increased
Officials: Japan Quake Jolted South Fla. Water Table
Florida Water table shook after Japan Quake
Or... maybe the Japan quake was enough of a jolt to the Ocean's floor in the gulf to break it open and collapse a portion of the area where the oil escaped... or just damaged the 'fix' BP Did.
Is BP Still monitoring the wellhead with ROV's?
Originally posted by galacticgirl
Had a very interesting - bone chilling - conversation about this with a friend late last summer. She had just had weekend company - her husband's longtime friend working for NASA with inside information. My friend said that the NASA guy told her that the BP DeepWater oil spill had never really been stopped - that it could not be stopped - ever - with the technology that we currently have. NASA guy said that a hole/crevice had been opened up by the exploision that could not be filled/contained/fixed and that the spill would go on pretty much - FOREVER. At the time I didn't know what to make of the conversation - now it seems like there could be some merit to NASA guy's statements.
Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of the Waterkeeper Alliance first heard reports about the slick on Saturday and flew over the site for a firsthand look. He shot the photo at right, and more images from his flight can be seen here. "It was hard to believe I was seeing as much oil in the South Louisiana area again," he wrote on his blog yesterday. "It was even harder to believe that our so called government watchdogs have not closed these fishing grounds!"
Originally posted by mikellmikell
Nope no new leak just Mississippi Mud. Might be from the spring turnover of Lake Michigan but it's too early for that I think. But you never know
Originally posted by Toots
Originally posted by mikellmikell
Nope no new leak just Mississippi Mud. Might be from the spring turnover of Lake Michigan but it's too early for that I think. But you never know
Surely, you're not gonna swallow THAT line of bait whole, are you??
Originally posted by MrWendal
We still wont know the full effects of what happened in the Gulf, but one thing is certain, people are getting sick and no one can tell them why or what is wrong with them.
Days after observers spotted a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, no one in a position or power seems to yet know where it's coming from—or if they do, they're not letting on just yet.
Meanwhile, residents of the Louisiana Gulf community of Grand Isle, who thought they'd finally turned the page on the nightmare of last year's BP spill, have noticed crude invading once again.
"I was out there from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. yesterday and the stuff came in in waves onto the island and through Caminada Pass," Grand Isle resident Betty Doud told the New Orleans Times Picayune. "There were these orange, nasty waves and black oil mixed with it. The oil was in the rocks along the pass."
Emulsified oil, oil mousse and tar balls from an unknown source were washing up on beaches from Grand Isle to West Timbalier Island along the Gulf of Mexico, a stretch of about 30 miles, and it was still heading west Monday afternoon, a Louisiana official said. The state is testing the material to see if it matches oil from last April's BP Deepwater Horizon disaster.
On Sunday, Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts reported that a Coast Guard official had said the oil might be from a project to plug and abandon a well just offshore of Grand Isle. But Coast Guard officials said they're still waiting for tests of material collected in that area to determine where it came from.
"At this point, the dark substance is believed to be caused by a tremendous amount of sediment being carried down the Mississippi River due to high water, possibly further agitated by dredging operations," the Coast Guard release said.
A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, however, said none of the three dredges operating near the mouth of the Mississippi River has reported any oil in the material they're removing from the river bottom to keep the channel deep enough for ocean-going ships.
The Mississippi River had risen to 12.5 feet in New Orleans on Monday, up from only 3 feet above sea level three weeks ago, an indicator that the river contains a heavy load of sediment from upstream.
RSOE
Situation Update No. 1
On 20.03.2011 at 20:07 GMT+2
An oil slick measuring 12 miles wide and 100 miles long has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico and is suspected to be from a new major leak at the Matterhorn Seastar oil rig just 20 miles from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Pilots from several independent organization are monitoring the slick and report it is spreading fast. Fishermen in Louisiana are reporting fresh oil slicks washing up on shore. Boom has been placed by cleanup crews to catch the spill. The Matterhorn field produces 5200 barrels of oil a day and was discovered in 1999. The well sits in 2789 feet of water and has been in production since 2003. It is 30 miles SE of the Mississippi River delta.