Tests suggest oil dispersant washing up on Alabama beaches

[Forkboy]

The stained, brown water seen washing up in pockets along Alabama beaches for the last two weeks appears to contain the dispersant widely used on oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, according to a preliminary analysis.

The Press-Register collected samples from multiple locations along the Fort Morgan peninsula during the last several weeks and provided them to Ed Overton, a Louisiana State University chemist.

While heavy oil sheen was visible in the areas where the material was collected, little if any oil was found to be present in the samples, said Overton, who is analyzing oil samples for the federal government.

"We didn't see oil in the analysis we do, but I passed some of these water samples to a colleague who does fluorescence analysis," Overton said. "We saw some preliminary indications that there was a dispersant signal in the sample."

Fluorescence analysis provides ultra-fine detail and can measure chemicals to the parts per billion level or better. Overton said it was too soon to say definitively that the material in the samples was the Corexit dispersant, but the signal was similar to a Corexit sample.

http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2010/08/tests-suggest-oil-dispersant-washing-up.html

[flyarm]

1. ahhh but go swimming in it!! ..your government 's toxic soup..good for hair and complexion!

rub your face with it..put your inner tube on and play kiddies..frolic in the sand..nothing to see ..

After all they made that nasty oil disappear!!

When you or your precious children get cancers later on...or kidney problems or lung diseases...remember back about swimming in that "OIL FREE" Gulf..and psss..BP and this white house will be long gone..just like the disappearing oil!!

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Forkboy.

[joeybee12]

3. But it's all gone! Our gov'mint don't lie!

Actually, apparently they do no matter if there's an R or a D after the president's name.

[spanone]

4. what oil? what spill?

:sarcasm:

[Poboy]

5. Tests may suggest that, but Admin. officials say its disappeared.

So its gone!

Watch that Ed Overton guy. He's owned by the oil lobby. He's constantly downplayed this throughout.