Barge KENAI; Thin Point, Cold Bay, Alaska

Thin Point, Cold Bay, Alaska | 1989-Jan-04

Initial Notification: On January 3, 1989, the barge KENAI grounded at Thin Point at the entrance to Cold Bay, Alaska, after breaking its tug tow line. The barge was carrying mostly dry goods, but also had a small amount of diesel fuel and 40,000 pounds of low-level, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-laden soil from the U.S. Navy facility at Amchitka Island that was being taken to a repository in Oregon. None of the containers of soil was lost overboard; however, damage to one of the tanks spilled about one hundred gallons of diesel. USCG district 17.