Forty-two hundred gallofs of crude".
Millions of gallons of crude oil spilled before the well was capped in July.
The oil well that spewed millions of gallons of crude into the sea has been sealed for good.
The spill spewed 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound and marred 1,500 miles of coastline.
Since then, repeated control efforts failed and some 100 million gallons of crude poured into the gulf.
The spill released about 63,000 gallons of crude oil into the river near the city of Laurel.
The spill, 11 million gallons of crude oil washing up on more than 1,200 miles of shoreline, happened 19 years ago this month.
A tanker spilled a half-million gallons of crude oil into the Mississippi River, closing a busy shipping route and threatening wildlife.
The spill was the largest in the sound since the Exxon Valdez leaked 11 million gallons of crude oil in 1989.
A decade after the Exxon Valdez spilled 10.5 million gallons of crude oil off the Alaska coast, the environmental effects remain visible, Colonel Leblanc added.
But the tanker spilled an estimated 10,500 tons, or 2.8 million gallons, of crude oil before the last of the three holes was plugged Sunday.
