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An oil sheen, about 1.5 miles west of the Coast Guard station
at the northern tip of Sandy Hook, was about two miles long and
quarter of a mile wide, U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Charles Rowe
said.
"The source of the sheen is not known yet, but the material is a
refined product. It won't have any effects that a crude oil
spill has," Rowe said and added that the sheen is likely to
evaporate by morning.
As a precaution, the Coast Guard has secured Horseshoe Cove,
part of the Sandy Hook National Park.
"Its a minor fuel sheen so thin that it cannot be collected. It
is not an environmental threat," said Larry Ragonese, press
director for the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection.
(Reporting by Vijaykumar Vedala & Kevin Jose in Bengaluru;
Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Ken Wills)
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