Here is a list, released by Louisiana emergency officials, of areas where oil was sighted recently. The list is not a comprehensive tally of areas affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Plaquemines Parish
Wednesday
- Submerged oil stirred up by boat 4.6 miles northwest of the Grand Gosier Islands.
- Submerged oil stirred up by boat 7.6 miles east of the Breton Islands.
- Oil sheen 1.75 miles northeast of the mouth of the Kimbel Pass.
- Oil sheen 2.4 miles east of the southern mouth of Pass a Loutre.
- Oil, tar balls, and sheen in water and cane grass on the east jetty of the Southeast Pass.
- Oil, tar balls, and sheen in water and cane grass on the west jetty of the Southeast Pass.
Thursday
- Heavy tar found 6 to 8 inches under the sand 0.95 mile west of the entrance to Chaland Pass.
- Heavy tar 30 yards long by 6 feet found 4 inches under the sand 3.2 miles east of the entrance to Chaland Pass.
Friday
- Half mile of oil on an unnamed marsh island on the southwest side of Bay Jimmy.
- Tar balls on the beach on the east side of the Scofield Bayou south entrance.
- Tar patties in an area 1 mile long by 20 yards wide in West Bay 2.15 miles northwest of Outlet W-2.
- Tar balls, 6 feet to 12 feet in diameter, in a large area of Scott Bay, 08 mile north-northwest of Double Bayou.
- Oil droplets, 3 inches in diameter, with some slightly submerged oil 1 mile west-southwest of the Southwest Pass Lighthouse.
- Heavy oil sheen with surface oil droplets and submerged oil in an area 2,500 feet long and 300 feet wide, 0.85 mile west of the Southwest Pass East Jetty.
- Dark oil and tar balls by the South Pass West Jetty.
Monday
- Oil with the consistency of peanut butter, 10 feet long and 2 feet wide, 1.46 miles east of Bay La Mer.
- Oil on the beach, in an area 2 feet wide and 25 feet long, 1.76 miles east of Bay La Mer.
- Oil patty, 4 feet in diameter and 4 inches thick, 0.95 miles west of Chaland Pass.
St Bernard Parish
Friday
- Small, light brown tar balls, in an area 2 yards wide and 200 yards long, in Drum Bay 1.25 miles east of Anderson Point.
Lafourche Parish
Friday
- Emulsified oil with sheen and brown and red particulates 9 miles south-southeast of the east end of Timbalier Island.
- Fresh tar balls on the northwest side of East Timbalier Island.
