{"id":392870,"date":"2026-07-10T02:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392870\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:42:27","slug":"chevron-says-it-quickly-stopped-gasoline-mixture-that-spilled-into-san-francisco-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392870\/","title":{"rendered":"Chevron says it ‘quickly stopped’ gasoline mixture that spilled into San Francisco Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chevron reported on Facebook <\/a>Wednesday that less than a barrel of hydrocarbon liquid had spilled into San Francisco Bay at the Richmond Refinery Long Wharf during a maintenance activity. <\/p>\n

The company said it responded immediately to contain the spill, along with the U.S. Coast Guard and California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and that it was investigating the cause. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe release was quickly stopped, kept away from environmentally sensitive areas, and clean up has concluded. There were no reported community impacts,\u201d the company said in a statement Thursday. <\/p>\n

Chevron reported the spill to the state Office of Emergency Services at 2:52 p.m., according to the hazardous materials spill report<\/a>. About 10 minutes later, a Level 1 alert reached cellphones through the Community Warning System. The lowest alert category, Level 1 requires residents to take no action. A Level 2 alert is used when hazardous material goes off-site.<\/p>\n

Chevron Richmond spokesperson Caitlin Powell said less than 21 gallons of a gasoline mixture had spilled and that the event did not escalate to Level 2. <\/p>\n

Last year, Contra Costa Health collaborated with the Community Warning System to include Level 1 events in the alert system. Before 2025, residents were not alerted to Level 1 events, which is how many refinery flares are classified. The change came out of a recommendation from a Contra Costa County grand jury. <\/p>\n

On July 1, Contra Costa County moved its hazardous materials program from the health department to the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District<\/a>. More than a day after Tuesday\u2019s spill, Fire Protection had not posted a report or a news release about the incident on its website.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Residents may sign up for text message alerts about spills, flares and other events at industrial facilities in Contra Costa County, including the four oil refineries, at CWSAlerts.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Would you pay more sales tax to keep BART and other transit agencies from cutting service?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chevron reported on Facebook Wednesday that less than a barrel of hydrocarbon liquid had spilled into San Francisco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-392870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}