The pipeline failure caused roughly 130,000 gallons of oil to gush into the Catalina Channel, creating a slick that spanned about 8,320 acres — larger than the size of Santa Monica.
Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley said a broken pipeline connected to an offshore oil platform called Elly caused the spill.The California Department of Fish and Wildlife asked people not to approach or touch potentially affected wildlife, as “they can cause more harm than good to the animals.” The agency urged people instead to call the UC Davis Oiled Wildlife Care Network at 823-6926, said spokesman Eric Laughlin.
Smith drove to the beach Sunday morning to observe wildlife ahead of a construction project planned at the mouth of the Santa Ana River.“There’s tar everywhere,” he said as he surveyed the birds congregated on the north bank of the river. “You think by now we would have figured out how to keep this kind of thing from happening, but I guess not.”“If the birds get into this tar, it’s going to stick to their feathers and it’s going to be a problem for them,” he said.
It is not clear how big the line break was, nor when it occurred. The U.S. Coast Guard said it received an initial report about 9:10 a.m., miles to the southeast of the platform off Newport Beach. Huntington Beach city officials said they were notified of the spill about the same time.
Neal Shehab, a 61-year-old resident of Newport Shores, said he started to smell oil fumes as early as Friday night. In 2015, an oil pipeline ruptured north of Santa Barbara and sent 143,000 gallons of crude oil flowing onto Refugio State Beach, with some of it seeping into the ocean. Tar balls from the leak were found as far as Manhattan Beach.That spill forced the closure of Refugio and El Capitan state beaches and covered waves, rocky shores, sandy beaches and kelp forests with oil.
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