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Plans to restart a pipeline in Santa Barbara County have angered residents worried about an oil spill similar to the massive one near Refugio State Beach in 2015.
Refugio State Beach (Chumash: Qasil, "Beautiful" [3]) is a protected state beach park in California, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Santa Barbara. [4] One of three state parks along the Gaviota Coast , it is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west of El Capitán State Beach .
Refugio State Beach — on a pristine stretch of coastline — was inundated by extreme rain and flooding in February that caused a "complete failure" of a culvert system, resulting in numerous ...
Oily rocks near Refugio State Beach on May 22, 2015. The spill was much smaller than the nearby 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill on January 28, 1969 in which an oil rig blow-out spilled an estimated 3.4 to 4.2 million US gallons (81,000 to 100,000 bbl; 13,000 to 16,000 m 3) of crude oil over a ten-day period. [43] [44] [45]
On May 19, 2015, Plains’ pipeline 901 ruptured near Refugio State Beach, spilling up to 630,000 gallons, or 15,000 barrels, of crude oil onto the shoreline and into the ocean.
Refugio, Texas, a town in Refugio County; Refugio State Beach, near Santa Barbara, California; Refugio Canyon, a region near Santa Barbara, California; Refugio Creek, a river running along Refugio Valley from the hills of western Contra Costa County, California; Other: Refugio, a 2003 album by Apocalypse; Refugio, a 2009 sculpture by Jan Hendrix
The most easterly of three state parks along the Gaviota Coast, it is located about 20 miles (32 km) west of downtown Santa Barbara, in Santa Barbara County. The beach is named for José Francisco Ortega, who retired from the Spanish Army in 1795 with the rank of captain and received the Rancho Nuestra Señora del Refugio as a land grant. [1] [2]
Naples State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) is a marine protected area that protects Naples Reef which is about three-quarters of a mile offshore along the middle of the pristine and rural Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County on California’s south coast. The SMCA covers 2.58 square miles. [1]