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Ship Owners Billed $600K For Bay Oil Spill Cleanup

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May 4, 2008 2:19 pm US/Pacific

Ship Owners Billed $600K For Bay Oil Spill Cleanup

SAN RAFAEL (AP) ― The owners of a cargo ship that clipped the Bay Bridge and spilled thousands of gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay is being asked to pay for the cleanup effort.

Marin County is asking for $600,000, which includes $262,000 paid to a company that tried unsuccessfully to block the heavy fuel from surging into an environmentally sensitive lagoon just north of San Francisco.

Other costs included booms placed to keep oil out of creeks and marshes along the bay.

The county is filing the bill with Hudson Marine Management of Pennsauken, N.J., which is representing the ship's owner, Hong Kong-based Regal Stone Ltd.

Federal prosecutors have charged the pilot of the 900-foot Cosco Busan with environmental crimes and lying to the Coast Guard in connection with the November spill.

(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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