 Asarco Site Tour
See how CPRD worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), state environmental agencies, and responsible parties to help create a new habitat as part of a hazardous waste site clean-up. The following photographs were taken on August 28, 2000 during a site visit sponsored by Asarco to view the removal of slag from the intertidal zone, the protection of remaining slag from erosion, and construction of new intertidal habitats.
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 AVP: Aunuu Debris Field, American Samoa
Debris field from a grounded vessel on the west shore of Aunuu Island, American Samoa. Debris is close to homes and accessible to the local children. Pieces are also on the reef flat and are likely moved in storms.
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 AVP: Debris Field from #62 Nam Sung, Rota, CNMI
Large debris field that resulted from the grounding of a large fishing vessel on the island of Rota in CNMI. There are large pieces of debris scattered from the beach across the reef flat.
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 Dune Vehicle Boneyard
A debris waste site on one of the Pribilof Islands in Alaska's Bering Sea.
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 Edmonds Dock Tour
A photo tour of near-surface plants and animals spotted around the public boat dock at the town of Edmonds, in northwest Washington State.
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 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Photos taken after the tanker Exxon Valdez grounded on Bligh Reef in the upper part of Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. The tanker was carrying approximately 53 million gallons of crude oil. Within a few days, it had spilled almost 11 million gallons of the oil into Prince William Sound.
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 Major Oil Spills
A gallery featuring photos of some of the world's largest oil spills, along with a little information about each of those spills.
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 Mearns Rock Time Series
A photo time series of Mearns Rock, a large boulder located in the intertidal zone at Snug Harbor on Knight Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska.
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 Overflight Maps
Overflight maps (Oct. 30 and Nov. 2) made during the 1996 response to a spill of fuel oil into San Francisco Bay.
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 Sediment Types
Photo examples of various sediment types. [Part of the Shoreline Assessment Job Aid.]
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 Shoreline Types (by ESI Rank)
Photo examples of 15 major shoreline types, listed in order of their Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) rank, from least sensitive to damage from spilled oil (lowest numbers) to most sensitive (highest numbers). [Part of the Shoreline Assessment Job Aid.]
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 Strandley-Manning Site Tour
A Superfund site on south Puget Sound in Washington State, contaminated with PCBs and dioxins, has turned out to be a cleanup and restoration success thanks to the early cooperation of NOAA, EPA, and Seattle City Light.
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 Tesoro Net Removal Project
On August 24, 1998, a hose ruptured at a transfer station owned by the Tesoro Corporation off Barber's Point near Honolulu, Hawaii. While transferring product from a tanker to shore, approximately 5000 gallons of bunker oil was spilled. Initially, the responsible party believed that far less oil was spilled and that it only impacted shorelines of Oahu.
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 Vieques Biota Sampling Study
These photos depict the field effort to collect land crabs and fiddler crabs on the island of Vieques. Samples were analyzed for chemical residues of PCBs, chlorinated pesticides, explosives, and trace elements.
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 Wyckoff Co./Eagle Harbor Beach Investigation for Creosote
This photo series illustrates the creosote sheen seeping from the restoration beach, as well as NOAA's assistance to EPA in the investigation of sources of the sheen. The use of NOAA equipment and staff helped the EPA characterize the nature of the Wyckoff site, while saving scarce EPA funding. The experienced NOAA staff, plus the ability of the track-mounted Geoprobe to move on the soft beach sand and mud without getting stuck, allowed the sampling to be completed a full week ahead of schedule.
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