How The U.S. Coast Guard Is Fixing The N.J. Oil Spill Caused By Sandy
The Coast Guard's Google map of the Motiva Oil Spill Google Petroleum tanks damaged during the storm spilled more than half a million gallons of oil into New Jersey waterways. Now crews are working around the clock to clean it up. Crews will be working for at least one to two weeks to clean up a storm-related diesel fuel spill on the New Jersey coast, according to a Coast Guard official. The oil came from two 3.15 million gallon-capacity tanks at the Motiva petroleum storage facility, in Sewaren, N.J., damaged during Hurricane Sandy. Each contained 336,000 gallons of oil prior to the storm. The site is located on the Arthur Kill, a 10-mile-long, 600-foot wide tidal strait dividing mainland New Jersey from Staten Island, N.Y. According to MarketWatch, Motiva has estimated that around 227,200 gallons of oil leaked from the damaged tanks. The Coast Guard has not confirmed that number. Two...