Authorities said United States Environmental Services, an oil spill response company, was collecting oily water.
Workers have been skimming oily water around the clock near Vicksburg, Miss.
And 685, 000 gallons of oily water have been collected so far, using nearly 50 vessels and multiple aircraft who are engaged in the response.
The ships that have skimmed up millions of gallons of oily water, and unfurled miles of barrier boom, will be required for months to come.
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Tar balls and oily water were spotted on Monday near the mouth of Lake Pontchartrain, a large lake to the north of New Orleans, in Louisiana.
These micro-organisms are pumped into the oily water 24-hours a day and it is hoped that in a year all of the oil will have been eaten.
An array of state and federal agencies are on the scene, skimming up oily water, installing thousands of feet of boom in an attempt to contain the oil, and burning off some of the slick.
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Along the way, we passed a murky expanse of water with oily scum on the surface.
The "detergent" action of soap comes from its ability to attach to oily, grimy surfaces, with the "water-hating" end breaking up molecules at that surface.
The parts of the body that mustn't dissolve--cell membranes, for instance--are made of oily molecules, and even a child knows that oil and water don't mix.
The diatom skeletons of which the mineral is composed are able to soak up huge quantities of oily materials such as lanolin and nitroglycerine, in the same way that a sponge soaks up water.
Produced water does not biodegrade, and when Donziger and his colleagues visited the Oriente they discovered that hundreds of oily pools pockmarked the rain forest.
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