Oil-spill Updates

In the event of an oil spill, up-to-date information is critical. Please visit this Web page frequently to see if your community is being affected.

The Delaware Estuary is home to the third-largest petrochemical port in the United States. For this reason, occasional oil spills are an unfortunate fact of life. Visit this Web page frequently to keep abreast of oil spill news affecting both the Delaware Bay and the tidal portion of the Delaware River. Or click here to view a timeline of past oil spills in the region.

For more information, please contact the United States Coast Guard's Delaware Bay Sector office at (215) 271-4800. To report an oil spill 24 hours a day, please call (215) 271-4807, or call the National Response Center toll free at (800) 424-8802. And to submit an oil-spill story for listing on this Web page, please e-mail Shaun Bailey at SBailey@DelawareEstuary.org.

Delaware:

• Oil Spill: What If It Happened Here?
• Scientists watch oil, worry about wildlife: Spill likely to enter Gulf Stream

New Jersey:

• Oyster windfall no pearl in Cumberland County
• Coast Guard has plan in event of Delaware Bay oil spill
• Mechanical failure on fuel oil truck blamed for accident that caused Mannington spill

Pennsylvania:

• Schuylkill Spill: No Answers Yet re Oily Spill August 9th
• DEP shuts down Chesco gas station after wells contaminated by diesel fuel
• Blown transformer causes oil to spill into river