Pipeline Burst Along Santa Barbara Coast Spills Into 4-Mile Long Oil Slick

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard estimates that about 21,000 gallons of oil spilled into a sea when a tube pennyless on a executive California coast.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Andrea Anderson says Tuesday’s tube mangle has combined an oil sharp stretching for about 4 miles of beach and about 50 yards into a ocean.

Santa Barbara County glow officials contend a source was a tube that pennyless and sent oil into a culvert that ran into a ocean.

The pipe, that is operated by Plains All American Pipeline LP, has been close off. The association did not immediately respond to phone messages seeking comment.

Emergency officials were responding to an apparent 4-miles-wide oil sharp off a seashore of Refugio State Beach in Santa…

Posted by KTLA 5 NewsTuesday, May 19, 2015

The glaze was from a ruptured tube on a seaside side that had been “secured,” a Coast Guard bureau after reliable in a tweet. (Credit: KTLA)

Posted by KTLA 5 NewsTuesday, May 19, 2015

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