The U.S. Coast Guard, working with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and local officials, report that the sulfuric acid that began leaking from a barge in Chocolate Bayou Wednesday appears to have stopped leaking. Officials monitored the amount of product in the barge MGM3030, as well as the level of the barge in the water and the pH levels around the, throughout Wednesday night and into this morning and concluded that the barge was not leaking. Approximately 358,000 gallons of the original 430,000 gallons of acid cargo has been offloaded from the barge . Efforts to remove the remaining acid and water mixture from the barge are expected to continue into Friday.
