The Coast Guard is responding to a crude oil discharge in Lake Washington near Port Sulfur, Louisiana, October 10, 2017. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans’ Incident Management Division (IMD) received a report of an estimated 1,260 gallons of oil and water discharging from a casing line on well LL&E #22. The leak resulted in a heavy rainbow sheen and pockets of brown oil over a two mile by 200-foot area in Lake Washington.
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