Louisiana authorities report oil sightings from Gulf of Mexico spill
By The Times-Picayune Staff

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

Tuesday

• Oil on about 1.25 miles of the shore of an unnamed island on the northwest side of Bay Jimmy.
• Possible subsurface oil 2.9 miles northwest of Mud Bay.
• Tar balls and pancakes on the beach at the Southwest Pass outlet 1.9 miles south-southwest of the East Jetty.
• Tar balls on the beach for 600 feet with oil sheen just offshore 0.36 miles east of Burrwood Bayou.
• Tar pancakes on 400 feet of shoreline of an unnamed island in the west end of Lighthouse Bayou.

Saturday through Monday

• 1-inch tar balls on a mile of shoreline 2.75 miles north-northeast of Mud Bay.
• 2-inch light brown tar balls on the shore of an unnamed island in East Bay 1.15 miles southwest of Grand Pass.
• Oil sheen in the southeast end of Wilkerson Bay.
• Heavy tar 20 feet long by 10 feet wide and 12 inches deep on the beach behind Bay Joe Wise.
• Oil sheen in Rattlesnake Bayou 1 mile northeast of Grande Ecaille.
• Fresh oil and tar balls, a half-mile long, on the South Burrwood Beach by the Pilot House area.

Friday

• Tar balls on the beach near the mouth of the Mississippi River's North Pass.
• Oil on the eastern side of the Mississippi River's Southwest Pass, 4.38 miles northeast of the Southwest Pass Lighthouse.

Jefferson Parish

Tuesday

• 10 to 15 small rust-colored globules retrieved when hauling in trawl and anchor on the west side of Spoonbill Bay.

Saturday through Monday

• Oil sheen 1.5 miles south-southwest of the southeast end of Elmer's Island.

Lafourche Parish

Tuesday

• Oil sheen with brown oil mixed in, a mile long and 200 feet wide, 0.4 mile west of Bay Marchand.
• Oil slick with sheen and brown blobs 1.4 miles south-southeast of the end of Highway 3090.

Saturday through Monday

• Brownish red tar balls, 1 inch to 2 inches in diameter, on West Beach south of Bay Marchand.
• Oil sheen, 200 yards square, in Bayou Lafourche a mile north of the Flotation Canal.
• Oil sheen, a mile long and 50 feet wide, 3.15 miles east-southeast of Bay Champagne.
• Tar balls on East Fourchon Beach to Elmer's Island 10 yards above the water line.
• Three oil plumes approximately 100 feet wide by 1 mile long located 3.5 miles southwest of the east end of Elmer's Island and 0.4 mile offshore.
• Oil sheen 5 miles southeast of the Belle Pass mouth.

Cameron Parish

Tuesday

• Tar balls on the beach 0.44 mile west-southwest of Smith Bayou.
• A 6-inch diameter by inch-thick tar ball on the beach 1.9 miles east of Smith Bayou.
• An inch-thick tar ball, 6 inches in diameter, on the beach 0.4 mile south-southwest of the Johnson's Bayou Heliport.
• An inch-thick tar ball, 6 inches in diameter, on the beach 0.55 mile southeast of the Johnson's Bayou Heliport.
• Tar balls on Holly Beach south of Porpoise Boulevard.

St Bernard Parish

Saturday through Monday

• Oil sheen in Chandeleur Sound 4.1 miles northwest of the Curlew Islands.

Friday

• Oil in the marsh grass north of Deadmans Bayou 1.90 miles west-southwest of Turtle Pen Isle.
• Oil in western Christmas Camp Lake 1.68 miles northwest of Point Cahill.

Terrebonne Parish

Saturday through Monday

• Oil sheen with tar balls, covering an area a mile in diameter, in Timbalier Bay 4.25 miles north-northwest of Brush Island.

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