Workers survey the site where a barge crashed into the Pelican Island Bridge, Wednesday, May 15, 2024, in Galveston, Texas. – Early estimates indicate up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday.on Wednesday.
The Coast Guard said earlier that it deployed a boom, or barrier, to contain the spill, which had forced the closure of about 6.5 miles of the waterway. On Thursday, the barge remained beside the bridge, weighed in place by debris including rail lines that fell onto it after the crash. “Given the rapidly changing conditions and uncertainty regarding the outage of the Pelican Island Bridge, the Galveston Campus administration will be relocating all Texas A&M Pelican Island residents," through at least Sunday, it said in a statement late Wednesday.
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