500 gallons of jet fuel spilled at shipyard
BREMERTON, Wash. -- Approximately 500 gallons of jet fuel spilled into the Puget Sound on Thursday, prompting a multi-agency response.
Navy officials said an overflow pipe on the USS Abraham Lincoln spilled some 1,500 gallons of a two-to-one mixture of seawater and jet fuel at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at 2:42 p.m. Thursday.
Crews deployed 5,000 feet of boom around the Abraham Lincoln and managed to isolate the contamination. Crews used absorbent pads and two oil skimmers to clean up oil inside the boom, officials said.
The cause of the spill has not been determined.
Washington State Department of Ecology and the U.S. Coast Guard also responded.
Navy officials said an overflow pipe on the USS Abraham Lincoln spilled some 1,500 gallons of a two-to-one mixture of seawater and jet fuel at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at 2:42 p.m. Thursday.
Crews deployed 5,000 feet of boom around the Abraham Lincoln and managed to isolate the contamination. Crews used absorbent pads and two oil skimmers to clean up oil inside the boom, officials said.
The cause of the spill has not been determined.
Washington State Department of Ecology and the U.S. Coast Guard also responded.