The UNITED STATE Coast Guard on Thursday replied to a record of a breakaway barges at the Racine Lock as well as Dam on the Ohio River near Huntington, West Virginia.

Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley got a record that UTV Austin C. Settoon, pressing 3 barges filled with roughly 3,780,000 gallons of gas condensate, allided with the lock wall surface at roughly 5:30 a.m, triggering the 3 barges escaped.

The Coast Guard stated one barge is had in the lock however the various other 2 barges are pinned versus gateways 7 as well as 8 of the dam, with the pull itself pinned versus gateways 6 as well as 7.

The Racine Lock as well as Dam is shut as well as has actually produced a line of 13 upbound vessels as well as 11 downbound vessels.

Members of Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Huntington get on scene to carry out an aquatic casualty examination, as well as a combined command has actually been developed, containing the Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineers as well as Settoon Towing Company, as the liable celebration, the Coast Guard stated.

The Coast Guard has actually released a security aquatic info program by means of network 16.

There have actually been no records of injuries or air pollution.

The source of the occurrence is under examination.