Crude oil from a pipeline rupture in Santa Barbara County last month floated down the coast to beaches in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, according to separate lab results released Monday by both state officials and the Texas pipeline company.
One sample of tarballs found in Manhattan Beach matched crude oil released into the ocean when the pipe broke May 19, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response.
As much as 21,000 gallons of oil spilled into the ocean.
A separate analysis of six tarball samples found that two of the samples - from beaches in Ventura and Los Angeles counties - had oil from the broken Line 901.