Discharge of Lubricating Oil into East River, New York, NY
1802 20th Avenue, Astoria, NY 11105, USA | 2024-May-02
Initial Notification: At 10:00 am on 2 May 2024, USCG Sector New York notified the NOAA SSC about a 2,000 gallon discharge of lubricating oil into the East River due to an equipment failure at the Astoria Generating Power Plant. Source has been secured, OSRO on-scene with boom deployed. USCG requested a trajectory.
Incident Details
| Primary threat: | Oil |
| Products of concern: | lubricating oil |
| Total amount at risk of spill: | 2000 gallons |
| Latitude (approximate): | 40° 47.18′ North |
| Longitude (approximate): | 73° 54.96′ West |
| On-Water Recovery: | Applied |
| Shoreline Cleanup: | Unknown/Not applicable |
| Dispersants: | Unknown/Not applicable |
| In-Situ Burn: | Unknown/Not applicable |
| Bioremediation: | Unknown/Not applicable |