By Dan Walsh
Wexford County Council are investigating reports of traces of oil washing up on beaches and possible oil deposits on some wildlife along the Wicklow and Wexford coastline.
Wexford County Council Environment Staff, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Coastguard and other relevant agencies are actively monitoring the situation. It is understood that helicopter surveillance was utilised today (Tuesday) in an effort to detect any sources that may be causing the problem.
Members of the public are asked to report any sightings of oil deposits on Wexford beaches or any evidence of traces of oil on Wildlife to customerservice@wexfordcoco.ie or on 053 9196000.
WexfordLocal.com has failed to receive any official answer to the whereabouts of a fishing trawler stranded on the Blackwater Sandbank following a drugs incident last September. It was treated as a crime scene.
Two men, who are not Irish nationals, were arrested after their fishing trawler suspected to be carrying a large haul of cocaine ran aground on a sandbank off the Blackwater coast.
The sandbank is not visible from the beach but enquiries amongst the local population or the authorities have failed to ascertain whether the vessel may have been salvaged or abandoned, and if the latter was the case, perhaps, that is the source of the oil leak?
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