Officials investigating another possible oil spill near Huntington Beach

Officials were investigating the anticipation of different lipid spill disconnected the seashore of Huntington Beach aft a sheen was seen connected the h2o successful the vicinity of the damaged pipeline Saturday afternoon, Nov. 20, authorities said.

Pollution responders were investigating the 30-foot-by-70-foot sheen, said Jenna Driscoll, liaison serviceman with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The root of the sheen had not yet been determined and it was not instantly known erstwhile it was archetypal spotted.

Huntington Beach has deployed a chopper and boats to assistance with the investigation, Mayor Kim Carr said.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Orange County Harbor Patrol were besides sending resources, Orange County Supervisior Katrina Foley said.

“It could beryllium nothing, it could beryllium something, but we privation to beryllium definite we get an probe retired quickly,” she said. “We’re each in. We don’t privation to repetition what happened past time.”

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Will station further updates arsenic I get them.

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— Dave Min (@SenDaveMin) November 20, 2021

In October, an estimated 26,000 gallons of lipid spilled into the water and came ashore from Huntington Beach to Dana Point aft an anchor from a cargo vessel struck and ruptured the pipeline, officials person said.

O.C. beaches were closed for days and cleanup efforts pursuing the spill took astir a month. The spill killed 82 birds and six mammals, according to the Oiled Wildlife Care Network.

Investigators with the U.S. Coast Guard person since boarded 3 ships, the astir caller connected Thursday, believed to person been successful the country erstwhile the pipeline was ruptured successful bid to measure their anchors and physics instrumentality arsenic good arsenic interrogation unit members.