Oil Spill Unlikely To Reach S.C. Coast
Chances are slim that tar balls from the Gulf will not come near the S.C. coast.
Jacqueline Michel, who runs a Columbia research firm has been contracted to help organize the oil spill clean up, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates tar balls have between a 1 percent to 20 percent chance of reaching the S.C. coast in late July or early August – the middle of the summer tourist season.
“That’s when it starts,” she said. “It will keep coming.”
