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Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Asphalt Spill (FPN#UCGPE25504)

Basemap:
Description: Additional asphalt surfaces in canal during night operations
Date Taken: 5/15/2025
Category: Site Photo
Latitude:
 41.8025215962082
Longitude:
 -87.7979779244015
Tags:
 POLREP40300
 
  • Multi-colored Mylar strands installed to...
  • An excavator on a barge removes product ...
  • An excavator picks up heavy product from...
  • An excavator lifts asphalt material from...
  • EPA oversees excavation work at the mai...
  • Additional asphalt surfaces in canal dur...
  • Additional asphalt surfaces in canal dur...
  • A patch of tar-like substance contained ...
  • Boat crews removing a tar-like substance...
  • Tar-like substance contained by boom
  • Patch approximately 4 feet wide of mater...
  • Material immediately downstream on bank ...
  • Clean up crew deploying boom
  • Asphalt material collected.
  • Cleanup crews feed boom into the canal.