Overview
- Johns Hopkins Hospital has accepted responsibility for the June 4 overflow at its East Baltimore facility and will finance all cleanup and remediation efforts.
- The U.S. Coast Guard is leading a multiagency response, with city and state crews containing the spill within a 100-by-250-yard area at the South Central Avenue Bridge marina.
- Skimmers, booms and vacuum trucks have removed more than 18,000 gallons of oily water mixture and recovered 400 gallons of diesel fuel since Thursday.
- Responders and wildlife experts have rescued and treated dozens of geese and turtles affected by the red-dye diesel.
- The Coast Guard has opened an investigation into the overfill that caused the leak during a routine diesel delivery.