Spilled Oil Flows Into Bay North of Seattle
Associated Press
ANACORTES, Wash. —
Crews on land and at sea worked Saturday to clean up nearly 50,000 gallons of crude oil that spilled onto the ground and into Fidalgo Bay after the blowout of a pump at a refinery.
The spilled oil flowed along railroad tracks a few hundred yards and through a culvert, said Lee Reagin, the Texaco refinery’s supervisor of human resources. The Coast Guard reported about 3,100 gallons entered Fidalgo Bay, about 80 miles north of Seattle.
Crews worked through the night to contain the spill at March Point, east of town.
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