The U.S. Coast Guard responds to an oil leak Thursday, July 28, near Southwest Pass. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard)
By Littice Bacon-Blood, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on July 28, 2016 at 4:23 PM, updated July 28, 2016 at 5:41 PM
An estimated 840 gallons of oil leaked from a flow line into the marsh at Southwest Pass, the Coast Guard said Thursday (July 28). The pipeline, owned by Texas Petroleum Management, has been secured and a containment boom put in place, the agency said.
Southwest Pass is a ship channel that juts off in a southwesterly direction from the main channel of the Mississippi River where the river empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The cause of the discharge was under investigation.