Thousands of tarballs wash ashore in Pensacola Beach [View All]

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Source: ABC-15 TV

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. - Thousands of tarballs are washing up on Pensacola Beach, Escambia County officials confirmed Friday morning.
Escambia Emergency Operations spokeswoman Sonya Daniel said, "We do have tarballs on the beach. Clean-up crews have been dispatched from Unified Command to clean them up."

Buck Lee, the director of the Santa Rosa Island Authority which governs Penscola Beach said, "This is what we've been afraid of and here it is."
ABC Action (News) reporter Don Germaise said he found thousands of the round globs lining the shore of the pristine beach.

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Doug Sullivan, a tourist from Missouri said "It's gross and it's only beginning. Imagine what its going to be like in a few days."

BP says some oil is flowing up a pipe from the now-capped well on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. But it's unclear how much is being captured.

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