FAIRHAVEN — Zoltan Comray sat in his white pickup truck Wednesday,
watching a crane lift his burned-out sport fishing boat from the waters of
Cozy Cove Marina.
NEW BEDFORD -- A tugboat working on the city's harbor dredging project
capsized and sank yesterday morning, releasing hundreds of gallons of diesel
fuel into the harbor.
FAIRHAVEN -- An early-morning diesel fuel spill did
little environmental damage yesterday, but noxious fumes lingered in the air
around a coastal neighborhood, nauseating some residents.
NEW BEDFORD -- A spectacular boat and oil slick fire
early yesterday morning filled the dawn sky with thick plumes of black smoke
and endangered nearby boats, a fuel depot and a crowded docking area near
the State Pier.
FALL RIVER -- Cleanup officials said 500 gallons of
diesel fuel entered a catch basin on Interstate 195, but city water
officials said none of the hazardous material found its way to nearby North
Watuppa Pond, the city's primary water supply.
FALL RIVER -- An estimated 800 to 1,000 gallons of
diesel fuel spilled over a one-mile stretch of Interstate 195 yesterday and
reduced the afternoon commute to two lanes when an oil truck hit a state
dump truck.
NEW BEDFORD -- Coast Guard officials are
investigating the illegal spill of 250 gallons of diesel fuel into New
Bedford Harbor sometime Wednesday night or early yesterday morning.
FAIRHAVEN -- The Coast Guard is investigating a fuel
spill in the New Bedford Harbor after a fishing boat leaked an estimated 75
gallons of diesel fuel into the harbor.
This past Wednesday, a tug was towing a 3.8
million-gallon oil barge south through Cape Cod Canal toward Buzzards Bay
when its engine suddenly faltered.
MATTAPOISETT -- Environmental officials say a
residential oil tank leaking into Mattapoisett Harbor has been detected and
contained before it could cause serious damage.
NEW BEDFORD -- Brian Partin pulled into North Terminal dock yesterday morning ready for scallop fishing when he learned the 30-year-old boat he'd rigged the day before had sunk to the bottom of the harbor. http://www.s-t.com/daily/07-99/07-17-99/b01lo059.htm
WESTPORT -- A tugboat successfully towed the grounded
offshore lobster boat Sherry Ann off the sands of Horseneck Beach yesterday
with the aid of high tide.
WESTPORT -- An offshore lobster boat ran aground on
Horseneck Beach yesterday morning while heading into the harbor during a
snow squall.
Ron Bonito of Frank Corp. tosses oil-absorbent wipes
yesterday onto the area where two fishing boats sank, spilling fuel into New
Bedford Harbor.
NEW BEDFORD -- Salvors this morning were scheduled to
begin raising two fishing vessels which took on water and sank at Homer's
Wharf early Sunday evening.
NEW BEDFORD -- Officials are trying to figure out why
two fishing boats sank between 5 and 10 p.m. Sunday and are praising a local
company's quick action which may have averted an environmental nightmare.
With two tape recorders whirling, Taunton Detective
David Warish slipped on the headphones in the fourth-floor listening post at
the Bristol County District Attorney's Office.
NEW BEDFORD -- The Coast Guard briefly restricted boat
traffic in the harbor for about 45 minutes yesterday after 700 to 900
gallons of diesel fuel leaked overnight from a city fishing boat.
WESTPORT -- Six private wells in the neighborhood of a
posh State Road home, where police uncovered a covert drug factory, tested
clean of any contaminants. However, the leaching field on the property did
reveal acetone, methylene chloride and methyl T-butyl ether (MTBE) in
numbers exceeding groundwater standards.
WESTPORT -- Fearing chemical waste poured down the
drain at a clandestine drug lab could seep into the groundwater, officials
emptied the septic tank yesterday and began testing the water at the posh
home.
FREETOWN -- A clogged storm drain is slowing the
clean-up of a 4,500-gallon oil spill and forcing extra precautions to
prevent further contamination of Assonet Bay. A tanker truck crash on the
Route 24 ramp leading into Assonet and Freetown spilled thousands of gallons
of oil on the roadside and into the storm drain Sunday.
FREETOWN -- Workers scoured Assonet Bay yesterday,
blotting motor oil from the surface of the brackish water in the second day
of cleanup after a truck spilled 4,500 gallons of oil Sunday morning.
FREETOWN -- A tanker truck exiting Route 24 rolled over
yesterday morning, spilling thousands of gallons of motor oil on the
roadside and into a storm drain that empties into Assonet Bay.
NEW BEDFORD -- Chris Blake paused at the outboard
motor controls of the blunt-bowed barge as it moved under the New
Bedford-Fairhaven bridge to investigate a report of a spill last week.
FAIRHAVEN -- A heating oil delivery truck yesterday mistakenly dumped 289 gallons of oil at the wrong address, where a tank had been removed. http://www.s-t.com/daily/03-97/03-05-97/c01lo135.htm
NEW BEDFORD -- The head of a local environmental group
is criticizing the city for doing what the former owner of the Herman
Melville shipyard was accused of doing -- using the site once called a Pearl
Harbor without smoke as a graveyard of derelict vessels. |
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