Photos:: Oil pipeline leak at Santa Barbara County beach

State Atty. Gen. and U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris, center, is briefed by Tyson Butzke, right, a superintendent with California State Parks, and Tom Cullen, left, of the Department of Fish and Wildlife, at Refugio State Beach on Thursday.

Workers load debris from cleanup efforts at Refugio State Beach on Thursday, June 4, 2015.

Boats offshore continue cleanup efforts along the beach at Refugio State Beach on Thursday, June 4, 2015.

Patriot Environmental Services workers continue May 27 to clean the shoreline at Refugio State Beach in Goleta. On May 19, a privately owned crude oil pipeline ruptured, causing an oil spill within and around Refugio State Beach. Santa Barbara County beaches affected by the spill are expected to remain closed until June 4.

Patriot Environmental Services workers work May 27 to clean Refugio State Beach.

A Patriot Environmental Services worker looks out May 27 over the Pacific Ocean during cleanup at Refugio State Beach.

Patriot Environmental Services workers clean the shoreline May 27 at Refugio State Beach.

Crews in protective gear form a line to move bags if oiled sand into collection bins ad they work to clean sand at Refugio State Beach on the Gaviota Coast west of Goleta, one week after crude oil spilled into the ocean.

Crews work to clean the crude-stained coastline at El Capitan State Beach. Authorities have intensified their response to the Santa Barbara oil spill by announcing remedies and additional investigations.

Cleanup crews scour the sand at El Capitan State Beach.

Shovels, bags and protective clothing are part of the cleanup gear.

Oil spill cleanup at Refugio State Beach.

Concerned residents rally at the beach south of the Santa Barbara to call for a stop to fracking and push for alternative energy.

Sebastian has a message for oil companies.

Amy Turnbull of Sherman Oaks takes a photograph while participating in a rally at the beach south of the Santa Barbara oil spill site on Sunday.

A duck wades in water at Refugio State Beach during an oil spill cleanup on Sunday.

A “Beach Closed” sign is posted at Coal Oil Point in Isla Vista. Many state beaches have been closed in the area, but some people still made their way to the shore.

Suited cleanup workers bag oiled sand and rocks on the shoreline at Refugio State Beach near Santa Barbara.

An official with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration tries to catch fish as part of damage assessment to the marine creatures in the area of the oil spill.

James Daly spends time with his daughter Camryn, 2, at Haskell Beach just south of the area of the oil spill. He noted that there’s usually more people on the beach for Memorial Day weekend.

Loree Haralson, from Riverside, uses a shell to clean tar off her daughter Tristan’s foot after a walk on the beach at Coal Oil Point in Isla Vista. Signs had been posted that the beach was closed because of the oil spill.

Suited workers continue to clean the shoreline at Refugio State Beach near Santa Barbara.

A great blue heron hides behind a rock on the beach at Coal Oil Point in Isla Vista. The beach was closed because of the oil spill.

Workers at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center work to clean an oil-covered pelican rescued from the spill at Refugio State Beach.

Workers at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center work to clean an oil-covered pelican rescued from the spill at Refugio State Beach.

Workers at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center work to clean an oil-covered pelican rescued from the spill at Refugio State Beach.

A bird covered in oil spreads its wings as it sits on a rock near Refugio State Beach in Goleta.

A sea lion covered in oil lies on the beach near Refugio State Beach, about 100 feet from where the oil spill flowed into the ocean off the Santa Barbara County coast.

A sea lion covered in oil struggles on the beach just west of Refugio State Beach, about 100 feet from where the oil spill flowed into the ocean.

Jenny Dugan, UCSB Marine Science Institute marine ecologist, takes a photograph of oil-fouled kelp as she and other scientists do natural resource damage assessments in the aftermath of the oil spill on the Gaviota coast in Santa Barbara County.

Jenny Dugan, UCSB Marine Science Institute marine ecologist, left, and Nicholas Schooler, graduate student Nicholas Schooler, document a dead octopus as she and other scientists do natural resource damage assessments in the aftermath of the oil spill on the Gaviota coast.

A large glob of oil on the beach at Arroyo Quemado in the aftermath of the oil spill on the Gaviota coast.

Nicholas Schooler, UCSB Marine Science Institute graduate student conducts natural resource damage assessments in the aftermath of the oil spill on the Gaviota coast.

Crew members from Patriot Environmental Services continue the removal of oil-fouled sand at Refugio State Beach in the aftermath of the oil spill on the Gaviota coast.

Scientists from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the UCSB Marine Science Institute conduct natural resource damage assessments at the Arroyo Hondo in the aftermath of the oil spill on the Gaviota coast.

Scientists from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the UCSB Marine Science Institute conduct natural resource damage assessments in the aftermath of the oil spill on the Gaviota coast.

Cormorants roost in a tree on Arroyo Quemado Beach on the Gaviota coast. Scientists are keeping an eye on the birds for signs of oil contamination.

Oil recovery and cleanup vessels ply the waters off El Capitan State Beach near Santa Barbara.

Patriot Environmental Services employees pile bags of oil-contaminated sand on the shoreline at Refugio State Beach near Santa Barbara.

Oil-contaminated sand makes an interesting pattern on the shoreline at Refugio State Beach near Santa Barbara.

Patriot Environmental Services employee scrapes up oil-contaminated sand into small piles for removal on the shoreline at Refugio State Beach.

Patriot Environmental Services employees bag oil-contaminated sand on the shoreline at Refugio State Beach.

Crews from West Coast Environmental bag oiled sand on the beach as a cleanup operation began at Refugio State Beach on Wednesday morning.

Point of origin where the oil pipeline ruptured.

Point of origin where the oil pipeline ruptured.

Crews bag oiled sand on the beach as cleanup begins.

Peuyoko Perez, a Native American monitor from the Chumash southern owl clan, prays as crews bag oiled sand.

Peuyoko Perez a Native American monitor from the Chumash southern owl clan, prays over a dead crab.

Crews pick up the last bags as the clean-up operation comes to a close for the day at Refugio State Beach on Wednesday evening.   (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Oil booms are deployed offshore as cleanup and containment efforts continue on the beaches in Santa Barbara County.

A pelican glides over oil-soaked kelp and oil sheen as a cleanup effort continues on the beaches in Santa Barbara County.

The oil spill fouls the waters and a kelp forest on May 20 as a cleanup effort continued along the coast in Santa Barbara County.

An oil boom is deployed offshore as the cleanup and containment effort continues along in Santa Barbara County.

An oil sheen is visible in a kelp forest offshore as the cleanup effort continues along the coast in Santa Barbara County.

An oil sheen is visible in a kelp forest as cleanup effort continues along the coast in Santa Barbara County.

A crew member holds a dead fish as West Coast Environmental crews bag oiled sand at Refugio State Beach.

Pelicans fly ovehead as cleanup crews work at Refugio State Beach on Wednesday morning.

Jenny Marek and Bill Standley, wildlife biologists with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife National Resource Damage Asessment team, photograph and collect samples of dead wildlife on the beach.

Oil covers rocks at Refugio State Beach on Wednesday.

Oil-stained rocks at Refugio State Beach on Wednesday morning.   (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Patriot Cleanup workers bag oiled sand and kelp at Refugio State Beach on Wednesday morning.

A cleanup operation is underway at Refugio State Beach after a ruptured pipeline near Santa Barbara leaked an estimated 21,000 gallons of crude oil.

Morgan Miller, left, and Josh Marsh look for wildlife to rescue along the coast at Refugio State Beach.

Josh Marsh, a longtime Santa Barbara resident, surveys the oil-coated Refugio State Beach, looking for wildlife to rescue.

Morgan Miller, left, and Josh Marsh walk the oil-coated shore at Refugio State Beach.

Boom ships work to contain oil offshore at Refugio State Beach just north of Santa Barbara.

Oil-coated rocks glisten on the shoreline at Refugio State Beach after 21,000 gallons of crude oil spilled.

Authorities inspect the oily shoreline at Refugio State Beach.

A cleanup operation is underway after a ruptured pipeline near Santa Barbara leaked an estimated 21,000 gallons of crude oil Tuesday.

Longtime Santa Barbara resident Morgan Miller on May 19 walks on oil-coated sand at Refugio State Beach looking for wildlife to rescue. Emergency officials and Exxon Mobil were responding to a ruptured pipeline that was leaking crude oil into the ocean, authorities said.

Diego Topete, left, and Ryan Cullom at Refugio State Beach. The oil spill left a 4-mile-long sheen extending about 50 yards into the water.

Alice Phillips, who lives near San Diego, looks at the oil-coated beach. Coast Guard crews stopped the leak by 3 p.m., an official said.

Morgan Miller looks at the devastation. The pipeline rupture leaked an estimated 21,000 gallons of crude oil.

Jake Lee of Santa Barbara looks for wildlife to rescue.

Miller, left, and Josh Marsh, also of Santa Barbara, search of wildlife to aid.