Petty Officer 2nd Class Bradley Martin collects sheen samples. Photo by the Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard, the state Department of Environmental Protection and a private oil-spill company are cleaning up an oil spill on the Mystic River near the Alford Street bridge even as they try to figure out which underwater cable it's leaking from.
The Coast Guard was scheduled to send divers into the water today to try to find the source of the dielectric oil, used as an insulator in electrical conduits.
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By Elmer
Sat, 04/14/2018 - 7:42pm
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[sup] ( another Martin Sheen sample )[/sup]
Yesterday
By Samuel Murphy
Sat, 04/14/2018 - 9:39pm
I noticed a light oil sheen on the downstream side of the dam near the Somerville shore. Chatting with a fisherman neither of us had ever seen that in the area.
So pernicious
By BlackKat
Sun, 04/15/2018 - 11:45am
Just as an example of how badly these can spread [from electrical conduits], look no further than a previous Universal Hub story:
http://www.universalhub.com/node/15140
So many unmapped things
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 04/15/2018 - 4:50pm
Part of the problem is that there are way too many unmapped dumping connections to the Mystic and Malden rivers that it is really difficult to track things down when bad stuff happens.
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By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 04/15/2018 - 4:50pm
duplicate.
Oil is bad enough but old
By anon
Sun, 04/15/2018 - 2:20pm
Oil is bad enough but old conduits sometimes had PCBs mixed into the oil as well.
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