Refugio Beach Oil Spill Incident Location

Published by Office of Response and Restoration | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: December 19, 2025 | Last Modified: 2019-08-19T00:00:00.000+00:00

On May 19, 2015, a pipeline owned by Plains All American Pipeline ruptured in Santa Barbara County, California, near Refugio State Beach. An estimated 21,000 gallons of the oil flowed overland from the break site into the Pacific Ocean and spread across the marine environment. NOAA and our state and federal partners are investigating these impacts and will determine the amount of restoration needed to return the environment to the condition it was in before the spill and to compensate the public for environmental degradation from the time of the spill until recovery. This layer depicts the location of the line 901 ruptured pipeline.

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:57720
issued	2015-05-19T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/57720
language	[]
references	[ "https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/orr/dmp/pdf/57720.pdf" ]
rights	otherRestrictions, unclassified
spatial	-117.677307129,33.4394634832,-120.509033203,34.566513866

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