Tangier Island Minor Mystery Spill; Calton Cut Creek, Tangier Island, Virginia

Calton Cut Creek, Tangier Island, Virginia | 1994-Nov-16

Initial Notification: At 1500, November 15, 1994, MSO Hampton Roads received a report that "tar" had been spilled in Calton Cut, Tangier Island, Virginia. The crew from USCG Station Crisfield was dispatched to Tangier Island and taken to Calton Cut using a Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) vessel. A USCG investigation of the spill traced the source of the spill from Calton Cut, across a road and into another marsh where they found another 30- by 10-foot slick of the same material and a 5-gallon bucket of material labeled "black net set, asphalt cutback, NA-1999." This bucket was about one-half full. USCG district 5. Keyword: sorbent boom, pompoms.