CHESTER — Work continued around Mile 45 of the Ohio River after a dredge boat overturned and spilled fuel near the East Liverpool shoreline last week.

Witnesses reported Tuesday morning seeing cranes approaching the Tri-State River Products’ dredge boat, which was discovered overturned on the morning of Sept. 11.

Since then, the Coast Guard has been overseeing the investigation into the incident with assistance from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection.

Jason Croxall, who is instructor for the East Liverpool High School’s Potter News Network, sent a trio of students — Lucas Colvin, David Ansell and Jude Brown — out Tuesday afternoon to grab drone footage and still photographs to memorialize the river salvage company’s deployment of five working cranes to the site of

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