section is responsible for dealing with oil spills<\/a>, discovered the sheen incidentally and called it into the National Response Center, said Lt. j.g. Stephen Mueller.<\/p>\n“Pollution responders went out and did a preliminary investigation and couldn’t determine the source,” Mueller said. “It looks like it’s non-recoverable. It looks weathered. It doesn’t look like a significant amount.”<\/p>\n
There was a spill of heating oil from a breached tank in late December that has since been fully contained, Mueller said, but there’s no way to link this sheen to that leak. The sheen could also be from a different source that has only recently been opened by thawing ice and snow. The sheen could also come from something like snow scraped off a roadway, Mueller said.<\/p>\n
“They think maybe it was old oil, but they can’t determine where it came from,” Mueller said.<\/p>\n
The Coast Guard does not have any ongoing concerns about this spill at this time, Mueller said, as the amount spilled was very minor and doesn’t come from a continuous source.<\/p>\n
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