NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. Coast Guard officials say the agency is overseeing the salvage operation of two barges that sank off the shore of Brooklyn.
They say the barges sank sometime over the weekend but were reported around 7:30 a.m. Monday in the Erie Basin in the Red Hook section. Each barge is 150 feet long.
Lt. Craig Toomey says the agency's primary concern is reducing and monitoring the threat of pollution to the marine environment.
Ken's Marine, a New Jersey-based commercial salvage company, is deploying booms to contain approximately five gallons of hydraulic oil that seeped from one of the barges.
The Coast Guard is trying to determine how they sank.
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