Incident Photo Of The Week - San Francisco Bridge-Barge Allision

January 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf. - The United Stated Coast Guard is responding to a tug and barge allision with the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. At approximately 6pm the tug and barge were headed outbound from Rodeo when it struck the east piling of the west span of the Richmond Bridge. The barge capacity is 65,195 barrels of heavy black oil and the ship’s crew reported no pollution on scene. Coast Guard boarding teams and small boat are on scene verifying that no pollution was released into the environment and the Coast Guard investigation has begun. All affected city, county and state first responders in the surrounding area including California Department of Fish and Game Office of Spill Prevention and Response, Richmond Police Department HAZMAT, California Office of Emergency Services, CAL TRANS, and California Highway Patrol have been notified and several of these agencies are responding to this incident. The companies contracted two oil response vessels were on scene within an hour of the allision. USCG District 11

Our friends Jim Herd of the SFist and Carl Nolte of SFGate have further coverage of the incident.

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Categories: Incidents · San Francisco

Tags: · bridge, collision, richmond bridge, tugboat

3 responses so far ↓

1 capdiamont // Jan 11, 2008 at 11:15 pm

I still wonder where it was going.
2 John // Jan 12, 2008 at 4:54 pm

hmmm… I can try to find out.
3 reader // Jan 13, 2008 at 4:21 am

An answer (accuracy unknown) to your question

http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/ci_7942273

No fuel spilled into Bay from barge collision
By Doug Oakley, MediaNews
Article Last Updated: 01/11/2008 06:22:48 PM PST

None of the 3 million gallons of fuel on a barge that struck the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge on Thursday evening spilled into the Bay, the U.S. Coast Guard said today.
“We know for certain all the oil remains on the barge,” Capt. John Long said at an afternoon news conference on Yerba Buena Island.
The barge, on its way from the ConocoPhillips refinery in Rodeo to Portland, Ore., was operating with one to two miles of visibility and calm seas at the time of the 6 p.m. accident, Long said.

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