Steilacoom Train Derailment; Olala Harbor, Colvos Passage, WA

Olala Harbor, Colvos Passage, WA | 1996-Feb-08

Initial Notification: Only small stringers of sheen in the vicinity of Olala Harbor in Colvos Passage were noted on a WA Dept of Fisheries overflight Friday morning. Shoreline surveys along Colvos Passage observed no signs of oiled shoreline or oiled wildlife. The locomotive and tank car were removed from the river by Burlington Northern at approximately 2000 on Friday, February 8. A boom is still deployed and maintained by cleanup contractors to contain a small quantity of diesel which penetrated into the track bed and is still leaking into the water. All other cleanup activities are complete.. USCG district 13.