TPW TV -- OIL SPILL TEAM: Meet a team from TPW that sprang 
to action once oil and water mixed ... ahead on Passport to 
Texas.

This is Passport to Texas (February 12)

On March 22nd, 2014 two vessels collided in the Houston 
ship channel. And that's when the TPW Oil Spill Response 
team sprang to action.

42 -- [Winston Denton] There was a timing issue with an incoming 
inbound ship and a barge and tug crossing the channel. 

[Steven Mitchell] The crew members started reporting that they 
had oil leaking from the barge.

[Rebecca Hensley] We had about 170,000 gallons of fuel that was 
spilled into the ship channel. 

[Don Pitts] Any large spill like this, we get notified by the Coast 
Guard or the General Land Office to come and assist in the role of 
Natural Resource Advisors. 

[Heather Biggs] Since it was a large event, we did pull people from 
Austin, from Corpus, even down from Brownsville we had folks 
coming in to help us. 

[Angela Schrift] We coordinated, figured out what we'd need. Got 
the materials together and got down to the coast as soon as we 
could.

Meet the team, and find out what happened next, when 
you view their story next week on the Texas Parks and 
Wildlife TV Series on PBS.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.
 










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