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Published: Monday, September 13, 2010, 7:25 PM Updated: Monday, September 13, 2010, 8:56 PM
Times-Picayune Staff
Here is a list, released by Louisiana emergency officials, of areas where oil was sighted recently. The list is not a comprehensive tally of areas affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
View full sizeU.S. Army photo, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs OfficeOil-soaked boom washed up on the marsh in Bay Jimmy near Venice on Wednesday.
Plaquemines Parish
Wednesday
* Submerged oil stirred up by boat 4.6 miles northwest of the Grand Gosier Islands.
* Submerged oil stirred up by boat 7.6 miles east of the Breton Islands.
* Oil sheen 1.75 miles northeast of the mouth of the Kimbel Pass.
* Oil sheen 2.4 miles east of the southern mouth of Pass a Loutre.
* Oil, tar balls, and sheen in water and cane grass on the east jetty of the Southeast Pass.
* Oil, tar balls, and sheen in water and cane grass on the west jetty of the Southeast Pass.
Thursday
* Heavy tar found 6 to 8 inches under the sand 0.95 mile west of the entrance to Chaland Pass.
* Heavy tar 30 yards long by 6 feet found 4 inches under the sand 3.2 miles east of the entrance to Chaland Pass.
View full sizeU.S. Army photo, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs OfficeA barrel of oil and water collected with a Shaffer vacuum from the marsh in Bay Jimmy near Venice on Wednesday.
Friday
* Half mile of oil on an unnamed marsh island on the southwest side of Bay Jimmy.
* Tar balls on the beach on the east side of the Scofield Bayou south entrance.
* Tar patties in an area 1 mile long by 20 yards wide in West Bay 2.15 miles northwest of Outlet W-2.
* Tar balls, 6 feet to 12 feet in diameter, in a large area of Scott Bay, 08 mile north-northwest of Double Bayou.
* Oil droplets, 3 inches in diameter, with some slightly submerged oil 1 mile west-southwest of the Southwest Pass Lighthouse.
* Heavy oil sheen with surface oil droplets and submerged oil in an area 2,500 feet long and 300 feet wide, 0.85 mile west of the Southwest Pass East Jetty.
* Dark oil and tar balls by the South Pass West Jetty.
Monday
* Oil with the consistency of peanut butter, 10 feet long and 2 feet wide, 1.46 miles east of Bay La Mer.
* Oil on the beach, in an area 2 feet wide and 25 feet long, 1.76 miles east of Bay La Mer.
* Oil patty, 4 feet in diameter and 4 inches thick, 0.95 miles west of Chaland Pass.
St Bernard Parish
Friday
* Small, light brown tar balls, in an area 2 yards wide and 200 yards long, in Drum Bay 1.25 miles east of Anderson Point.
Lafourche Parish
Friday
* Emulsified oil with sheen and brown and red particulates 9 miles south-southeast of the east end of Timbalier Island.
* Fresh tar balls on the northwest side of East Timbalier Island.
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outthebox2 September 13, 2010 at 8:05PM
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Seems like their not reporting all the sightings. I personally reported Sunday sighting oil sheen throughout Bakers canal on Saturday. From what I understand individuals went out Sunday and spotted more but yet BP is scaling back it’s response down in Hopedale, La. We are just beginning to reap the repercusions of this spill on our wetlands.
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keysfish September 13, 2010 at 8:12PM
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Even the New York Times is saying it’s over and wasn’t so bad, especially in Louisiana. “Gulf May Avoid Direst Predictions After Oil Spill– Preliminary scientific reports suggest the damage may be significantly less than was feared.”
But was it really the shrimpers who killed the sea turtles?
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0000000000 September 13, 2010 at 8:57PM
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BP and the Government thought they had this thing well covered up. Looks like they even screwed that up. Let’s play some soft music and talk about how BP will do everything in it’s power to make things right. They even have people working for them that have lived here all their lives, and will see that things are done right. Brings a tear to my eye, and indigestion to the belly.
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nowino59 September 13, 2010 at 9:24PM
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I’m on a beach east of Destin this week and have a collection of tarballs already after 1 day. And there are NO remediation crews patrolling the beaches anymore.
Special thanks to Richard Charter