Damage to the pipeline could have occurred weeks or months before the spill, two sources familiar with the investigation tell The Times.
of oil into the waters off the Orange County coast could have occurred several months to nearly a year before the spill, Coast Guard officials said Friday.
The pipeline was intact in October 2020 when the company last did an inspection, Neubauer said. It is not clear when the pipe began leaking or what caused it. But the marine growth visible around the displaced section of the pipeline indicates the anchor drag likely didn’t happen recently, Neubauer said.“That has refocused the time frame of our investigation to at least several months to a year ago,” he said.
Officials say damage to the pipeline caused a minimum of about 24,696 gallons and a maximum of 131,000 gallons of oil to spill into the ocean, resulting in a slick that hasfor nearly a week. Oil has washed up from Huntington Beach to San Diego County, fouling beaches and threatening sensitive marine habitats.
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