ACONCAGUA Grounding; Long Island Sound

Long Island Sound | 1990-Apr-11

Initial Notification: THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS BASED ON THE MOST CURRENT DATA PROVIDED TO NOAA. - Important note concerning the NOAA "HOTLINE" Communications System: . . Please note that this system is used for NOAA internal communications and the reports are put in chronologically. There is NO corrective "post editing" of the reports. As a result of this, early reports may have information that later proved to be incorrect. Sometimes these errors are corrected in a later report, but sometimes corrections are made over the phone or in-person, and no correcting message is entered. This reflects the use of this system as a real-time spill communications system and is not intended to be an event-log. Please keep this in mind when reading HOTLINE reports for this incident. . If you have any problems with this system please contact the SSC on watch at 206-526-6317. At 0700 the SSC was notified of a potential oil release from a grounding by the container ship M/V Aconcagua, inbound enroute from New London, CT to NYC. The position of the grounding was 40 52' N, 73 44' 40" W, Execution Rock, in Long Island Sound. The vessel had a potential of 1900 barrels of Bunker C oil. . Morning overflight observations indicated approximately 1000 gallons of oil on the water. This was obsevered at the mouth of Hempstead Bay, Nassau County, NY. . MASS trajectory indicates oil coming ashore on the East side of Hempstead Bay, from Glen Cove Landing to Sea Cliff, and Sands Point Beach. . The ship is currently anchored north of Barker Point awaiting offloading of oil from the 3 damaged fuel oil tanks. . RPI indicated that the resources at greatest risk were shellfish, wading and shore birds. There are several sheltered tidal marshes in the area. Boom has been deployed at creek mouths and is presently being placed across Glenwood Landing. . Lant Area Strike Team and Navy SUPSALV enroute. 8 Coast Guard vessels on-scene. . SSC plans: Stay available to OSC in case of additional release from ship during offloading process. USCG district 1.