On May 29, an abandoned underwater fuel line, about 50 feet long and 12 inches in diameter, became dislodged and began leaking bunker fuel oil into the Port of Astoria’s Pier 2 slipway. According to DEQ spokesperson Michael Loch, it all happened when a structure supporting “a previously unknown legacy fuelling pipeline system beneath Pier 2 failed.” That then resulted in oil discharging from the exposed section of the pipeline.
