Coast Guard Sees Cleanup of Spill Lasting Until the Fall

June 7, 2010 by legitgov

Coast Guard Sees Cleanup of Spill Lasting Until the Fall 06 Jun 2010 The Coast Guard commander in charge of the federal response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico warned on Sunday that even if the flow of crude was stopped by summer, it could take well into autumn -- and maybe much longer -- to deal with the slick spreading relentlessly across the gulf. The area of gulf shoreline potentially affected by the spill has continued to grow, extending from central Louisiana to Port St. Joe in the middle of the Florida Panhandle, a 400-mile front in a widening sea, air and land war.