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Summarizes restoration projects conducted by NOAA and our partners in order to recover natural resources.
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Creating New Habitat As Part of Hazardous Waste Cleanup at Asarco Asarco operated one of the largest North American smelters from 1890 to 1985 in Tacoma, Washington, leaving a legacy of toxic slag along the shoreline. OR&R scientists worked with EPA and Asarco to incorporate habitat into the shoreline cleanup. |
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Fish Habitat Restoration at Strandley-Manning Superfund Site 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. |
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Naval Construction Battalion Center The Davisville Naval Construction Battalion Center (NCBC) site, contaminated with PCBs, PAHs, and inorganics, is adjacent to Narragansett Bay and Allen Harbor, Rhode Island. This area is of special concern because it supports commercial and recreation fisheries. NOAA played a key role in actively pursuing remediation and habitat restoration activities in sites that border Allen Harbor. |
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OR&R Budget Overview For the past four years, OR&R's annual appropriation has been 30 percent less than the President's budget request. These budget cuts continue to affect OR&R's ability to execute its core mission responsibilities. |
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Restoration at City of Baytown, Texas Negotiations between the resource agencies and the French Limited Trust Group (representing all the responsible parties) settled on the creation of 25 acres of intertidal wetlands in the San Jacinto floodplain as appropriate compensation for natural resource injuries. |
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Restoration in Galveston Bay, Texas On July 28, 1990, approximately 694,000 gallons of catalytic feedstock (a type of oil) was released into the Houston Ship Channel/Galveston Bay from two barges that were struck by a passing tanker. |
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Restoration in Lavaca Bay, Texas The Point Comfort/Lavaca Bay Superfund site was an active bauxite refinery and aluminum smelter located on the Texas coast halfway between Houston and Corpus Christi. It operated from the 1940s to the 1990s. In the late 1960's through 1977, the facility produced caustic soda in a mercury cell chlor-alkali plant for use in the refinery from locally available raw materials. Mercury was released from plant operations and wastewater discharges to Lavaca Bay. |
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Restoration in Marysville, Washington The Snohomish River Estuary, located in Marysville, WA, is the planned site for restoration work to be implemented as compensation for natural resource damages incurred at the Tulalip Landfill Superfund Site. Led by NOAA, USFWS, the State of Washington's Department of Ecology, and the Tulalip Tribes (responsible owners of the Site), an initial Restoration Plan was drafted in October 1998. This plan calls for approximately 360 acres of habitat to be restored to a thriving salt marsh community within this important watershed. A site for land acquisition has been chosen and most of the land to be restored has been acquired. |
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Restoration in Port Arthur, Texas The Old Gulf Refinery site has been an active refinery since the 1902 discovery of oil in the area at "Spindletop." NOAA and the Texas trustees worked with Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to achieve remedial goals at the site that address releases of hazardous substances including aromatic hydrocarbons and metals. |
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Wetland Restoration near Bladensburg This describes efforts to restore habitat near Bladensburg. |
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Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program NOAA's Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program (DARRP) is responsible for assessing and restoring coastal and marine resources injured by oil spills, hazardous substance releases, and vessel groundings. |
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NOAA Restoration Portal Web Site Provides centralized access to information about NOAA restoration resources, including restoration techniques and NOAA restoration references, through a single point-of-entry. |
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OR&R Efforts in Vieques, Puerto Rico Vieques is a small island east of mainland Puerto Rico that was formerly used by the U.S. Navy for military training operations. The Navy ceased operations in 2003, and is now investigating areas it previously occupied to determine the extent of contamination. |
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