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On the coastlines of Chennai and Ennore in Tamil Nadu, that are affected by the huge oil spill, massive clean up operations are underway for the sixth day today. The coordinating agency for removal of the oil sludge, the Indian Coast Guard says, there is no traces of oil spill inwards the sea now, though a few stretches of the coasts near Ennore Kamarajar Port remain blackened with the oil pollutants. The spill was due to a collision of two vessels near the Port at Ennore, 30 kilometers off Chennai on Saturday. An estimate by the Coast Guard has said more than 60 tonnes of oil sludge and even higher quantity of oil and water mix and polluted sand have been removed so far.

Full-fledged clean up operations began more than a day after the collision, as officials initially believed the damage is minimal. Coast Guard along with personnel from the state government and the port are joined by hundreds of volunteering youth and college students in removing the oil slick manually and using dispersing agents. The major operation is expected to be over shortly. However, it is feared that it would take a longer time to get rid of the oil coating from the affected beaches.




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