Waste Oil Discharge, Tucker's Bayou; Deer Park, TX

Deer Park, TX | 2024-May-11

Initial Notification: On May 11, 2024, an unknown amount of waste oil from tank washings was discharged into Tucker's Bayou, a sub-estuary of Buffalo Bayou (aka Upper Houston Ship Channel) NRC#1398647. Oil-water mixture discharged from a drainage culvert into a heavily vegetated area in the upper end of the Tucker Bayou drainage. Sector Houston-Galveston notified NOAA SSC, and requested assistance with identifying potential listed species on-site and recommendations for clean-up methods.