UPDATE: Unified Command established for oil and tar balls along shorelines in Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York

Source: United States Coast Guard

 

12/01/2023 11:26 PM EST

NEW YORK— Coast Guard Sector New York, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, New York City Office of Emergency Management, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation have established a Unified Command to continue the ongoing response to reports of oil along the shoreline north of Coney Island Creek in the Gravesend Bay area of Brooklyn, and new reports of tar balls along Fort Wadsworth beach in Staten Island.