Oil spill cleanup will take days, official says - San Jose Mercury News

Cleanup crews today will resume mopping up an oil tanker spill that dirtied at least 12 birds and left tar balls on the shoreline at Crown Memorial Beach and Ballena Bay in Alameda, the U.S. Coast Guard reported Saturday.

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As many as 18 skimmers and 53,000 feet of boom have been deployed to contain the 400 to 800 gallons of oil spilled from an oil tanker during refueling operations two miles south of the Bay Bridge. "We expect the cleanup to last for days," Coast Guard Petty Office Levi Read said Saturday night.

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