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Clean Up Operations Underway for 100 Gallon Bunker Spill in Missouri River
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) says clean up operations are underway for a 100 gallon bunker spill in the Missouri River near Kansas City, Missouri.
USCG says it received a report at about 9:26 p.m. on Monday that a fuel tank rupture had led a towing vessel to discharge 100 gallons of diesel into the Missouri River close to mile marker 360.
The vessel is noted to have stopped the discharge of fuel, and an oil spill removal organisation placed a boom around the vessel Monday.
The same spill removal company was scheduled to return on Tuesday to continue clean-up operations, with the USCG noting that it would continue to monitor the situation until all the fuel had been successfully removed from the water.
The cause of the incident is said to be under investigation.
Last month, USCG announced that the Houston Ship Channel had been closed in a more than one mile section after a bunker spill followed a fire on Panama-flagged Aframax River the previous evening.
