Floating barrel; San Francisco Bay, CA
San Francisco Bay, CA | 2016-May-04
Initial Notification: On May 4, 2016, USCG Sector San Francisco called the NOAA SSC reporting a barrel floating high in the water within San Francisco Bay between Yerba Buena Island and the Port of Oakland. Sector requested trajectory support to assist in recovery operations. Barrel contents unknown.
Incident Details
| Primary threat: | Chemical |
| Products of concern: | Barrel |
| Latitude (approximate): | 37° 48.67′ North |
| Longitude (approximate): | 122° 21.15′ West |
| On-Water Recovery: | Applied |
| Shoreline Cleanup: | Unknown/Not applicable |
| Dispersants: | Unknown/Not applicable |
| In-Situ Burn: | Unknown/Not applicable |
| Bioremediation: | Unknown/Not applicable |