The oil spill reported Thursday in Port Townsend Bay near Naval Magazine Indian Island came from the USS Gridley, the Navy said Thursday.
The spill was discovered after the Gridley, an Arleigh …
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The oil spill reported Thursday in Port Townsend Bay near Naval Magazine Indian Island came from the USS Gridley, the Navy said Thursday.
The spill was discovered after the Gridley, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer homeported in Naval Station Everett, left a pier at Indian Island Thursday morning.
The Navy said the spill was discovered around 10:30 a.m. June 3. The cause of the spill is still under investigation. Officials have yet to determine how much oil was spilled into Port Townsend Bay.
The spill has been contained and recovery efforts are ongoing, the Navy said, and emergency responders continue to assess the situation and work to mitigate any potential issues at the scene.
The response effort included the deployment of 200 feet of oil spill containment boom.
The Coast Guard and the Washington state Department of Ecology have been notified about the spill, the incident, the Navy said.
The Gridley was moored at Naval Magazine Indian Island in early January for a three-day ammunition onload, according to the website uscarriers.net, and returned to Indian Island Tuesday, June 1 after a four-day underway period in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
