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The Greenpoint oil spill, larger than the Exxon Valdez
1978
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
A Coast Guard helicopter spotted oil seeping into Newtown Creek in 1978 and traced it to a plume underneath the neighbourhood, left by more than a century of refining. Estimates of its size run from 17 to 30 million gallons, which is larger than the Exxon Valdez spill, and recovery is still under way.
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