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Tosco Bayway Refinery

The heat exchanger at the Tosco Bayway Refinery ruptured and injected gas-oil into the
cooling water that leads into Morses Creek.  Once the oil was in the water it went under a
series of pre-staged boom into the Arthur Kill. When the hot oil reached the cold waters
of the Kill, it resurfaced and impacted the west shore of Staten Island, Pralls Island,
and the marsh at Sawmill Creek.  Cleanup crews removed what oil they could.