Samples of an oily water mixture and ballast water are taken from the vessel Amazon, a 1940's era 170-foot crane barge, during a preemptive oil spill response to remove 2,900 gallons of oily water from the barge located on the banks of the Columbia River near Goble, Ore., May 12, 2017. During an assessment of the vessel a large volume of oily water was seen in the bilges and with the vessel being in poor material condition the decision was made to preemptively cleanup the barge before an oil discharge happened.

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