Coast Guard Key West Sector Captain Pat DeQuattro confirmed Wednesday that tests on tar balls found Monday and Tuesday on Key West Fort Zachary Taylor State Park and other areas of the Lower Keys are not from the Transocean/BP oil spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico. He said tar balls were flown last night to a laboratory in Connecticut and tested early Wednesday morning.
Captain Kevin Gillespie, a Coast Guard liaison to the Florida Emergency Operations Center, sent the following e-mail to state officials:
From: Kevin.Gillespie@uscg.mil
To: Sole, Michael; Halstead, David
Cc: DeLorenzo, Mike
Sent: Wed May 19 06:37:15 2010
Subject: Lab Results on Tar Balls
Good morning Sirs. Report came early this morning stating that tar balls collected from Fort Zachary State Park are NOT RELATED to Deepwater Horizon.
Capt Kevin Gillespie
CG LNO to FL EOC
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