Most of Huntington Beach oil sheen cleaned up, very thin sheen remains Coast Guard says

The Unified Command said about 85% of the sheen, roughly 85 gallons of product, was recovered by Friday night.

The U.S. Coast Guard conducted an early Saturday morning flyover of the Huntington Beach ocean water oil sheen which was spotted Friday morning, and reported that a very thin sheen remains.Friday, the slick was about 2.5 miles long, around 3 miles off the coast near the oil platforms named Emmy and Eva the U.S. Coast Guard reported.The agency took samples from the oil sheen and used booms and absorbent material to limit the oil from spreading to minimize environmental impacts.

Balls of tar were spotted in the sand in the Huntington Dog Beach area Friday. The Oiled Wildlife Care Network responded to the area to investigate reports of oiled wildlife. So far, reports say one oiled grebe has been recovered, according to the Coast Guard.Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley visited Dog Beach in Huntington Beach and got some of the tar on her shoes, but she said the problem appears to be contained.

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