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Peel Coastguard deals with oil pollution incident

Tue, 21 Aug 2018

Peel Coastguard crews were called out to tackle an oil pollution incident in Peel Harbour.

A team arrived at the scene and determined two boats next to each other to be the possible cause of the pollution.

A boom was placed around the two vessels and further booms placed downstream to prevent the oil spreading.

The coastguard handed over control of the clean-up operation to the Department of Infrastructure and returned to the station just under two hours after being called out.

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