it's not yet confirmed
Posted by CypressTX on 7/5/2010, 11:31 pm
how it arrived:   http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7094982.html

"However, officials said the makeup of the oil was not consistent with having traveled 400 miles in the ocean. Investigators are looking it into the possibility that the oil might have been carried on the side of a ship or in the bilge of a ship that had taken in water.

There is a port here, ship traffic coming & going all the time.  They are also not an uncommon site on Galveston beaches, though the tourist pr people don't advertise it - I recall getting tar stains even back in '84 while visiting Galveston beaches
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Oil (tarballs) now being reported in Lake Ponchartrain (NOLA)---Also near Galveston Tx - jack ruby, 7/5/2010, 11:11 pm
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