Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read | U.S. Coast Guard Northwest District | 02.12.2018
Cleanup of an oil spill in the Columbia River is winding down, Feb. 12, 2018, after an oil tank was removed from under a dilapidated pier adjacent to the Cannery Pier Hotel & Spa, Jan. 30, 2018. Their has been no further oil discharge since the removal of the mid-1900s oil tank, but oil remnants remain on pier pilings and rocks that will weather and naturally dissipate. U.S. Coast Guard......
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read | U.S. Coast Guard Northwest District | 02.12.2018
Cleanup of an oil spill in the Columbia River is winding down, Feb. 12, 2018, after an oil tank was removed from under a dilapidated pier adjacent to the Cannery Pier Hotel & Spa, Jan. 30, 2018. Their has been no further oil discharge since the removal of the mid-1900s oil tank, but oil remnants remain on pier pilings and rocks that will weather and naturally dissipate. U.S. Coast Guard......
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read | U.S. Coast Guard Northwest District | 02.12.2018
Cleanup of an oil spill in the Columbia River is winding down, Feb. 12, 2018, after an oil tank was removed from under a dilapidated pier adjacent to the Cannery Pier Hotel & Spa, Jan. 30, 2018. Their has been no further oil discharge since the removal of the mid-1900s oil tank, but oil remnants remain on pier pilings and rocks that will weather and naturally dissipate. U.S. Coast Guard......
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read | U.S. Coast Guard Northwest District | 01.28.2018
Capt. Bill Timmons, commander Coast Guard Sector Columbia River and federal on scene coordinator, watches response personnel cleanup oil product from the Columbia River adjacent to the Cannery Pier Hotel & Spa in Astoria, Ore., Jan. 28, 2018. The oil spill is believed to originate from a mid-1900s oil tank under a dilapidated pier that was once home to a seafood cannery that was a major......
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read | U.S. Coast Guard Northwest District | 01.28.2018
Petty Officer 2nd Class Brandon Ward, a marine science technician attached to the Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team, provides an operational brief to Capt. Bill Timmons, commander and federal on scene coordinator, Coast Guard Sector Columbia River at the oil spill site near the Cannery Pier Hotel & Spa, Jan. 28, 2018. The Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team is a specialized team out of Novato,......
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read | U.S. Coast Guard Northwest District | 01.28.2018
Oil spill responders from the National Response Corporation Environmental Services pick up oily pompoms used to collect oil product from the Columbia River near Astoria, Ore., Jan. 28, 2018. Multiple agencies and companies are working together to cleanup an oil spill that is originating from under a dilapidated pier west of the Cannery Pier Hotel & Spa in Astoria, Ore. U.S. Coast Guard......
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read | U.S. Coast Guard Northwest District | 01.28.2018
Petty Officer 2nd Class Brandon Ward, a marine science technician attached to the Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team, gives a tour and provides an operational brief to Capt. Bill Timmons, commander and federal on scene coordinator, Coast Guard Sector Columbia River, and Cmdr. Sean Cashell, response department head, Sector Columbia River, at the oil spill site near the Cannery Pier Hotel & Spa,......
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read | U.S. Coast Guard Northwest District | 01.28.2018
Oil spill responders from the National Response Corporation Environmental Services lay out pompoms, used to collect oil product during oil spill cleanup operations, around a dilapidated pier west of the Cannery Pier Hotel & Spa near Astoria, Ore., Jan. 28, 2018. Oil spill responders from multiple organizations have been on scene since an oil sheen was reported to the Coast Guard, Jan. 18,......