A barge carrying 80,000 gallons of oil hit a railroad bridge inVicksburg, Miss., on Sunday, spilling light crude into the Mississippi River and closing the waterway for eight miles in each direction, the Coast Guard said. A second barge was damaged.
Investigators did not know how much had spilled, but an oily sheen was reported as far as three miles downriver of Vicksburg after the 1:12 a.m. accident, said Lt. Ryan Gomez of the Coast Guard's office in Memphis, Tenn.
It wasn't immediately clear whether the second barge also hit the bridge or if it ran into the first barge, he said. The first barge was still leaking Sunday evening, and emergency workers set out booms to absorb and contain the oil, Gomez said. The river's closure halted at least five northbound and two southbound vessels, he said.
My Response
Who are the captain of these barges? Enough already for oil spillages because the barge hit a rock or sea gull !! I'm more concerned about the filth in the water rather than higher gas prices. Maybe it's because I don't own a car. Still all the mercury in the water, as they say, means a diminished amount of fish that I can eat without the mercury level in my body reaching lethal levels. What the hell ?
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