| Big oil-slurping barge joins clean-up fleet at New Orleans |
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Associated Press - July 31, 2008 3:24 PM ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A barge designed to slurp up large amounts of oily water has joined the Mississippi River cleanup fleet. It is stationed near the twisted wreckage of the barge from which hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil spilled last week. Coast Guard Petty Officer Steve Lehmann says the "high-volume open-sea skimmer system," - HOSS, for short - will stay there until the wrecked barge is pulled out of the river. It was brought over in case of another small spill like the one that closed the Mississippi at New Orleans for six hours Wednesday. The broken 100-foot-long barge carried 419,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil when a tanker hit the middle of its three holds early July 23. The rear tank, apparently still intact but wrenched 180 degrees from the forward tank, rests on the river's bottom. The forward tank, which is braced against a massive bridge pier, still holds an unknown amount of oil. On Wednesday, about 2,500 gallons of that oil leaked out when the forward tank settled because the river had dropped about 3 feet. Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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