Environmental
Contaminants
Oil Spills
The US Fish and Wildlife Service's Oil Spill Program is to emphasize early planning and cooperation at the local, regional and national level in an effort to minimize the injury to fish, wildlife, and sensitive environments from oil spills. During a spill event, we assist State and other Federal officials in spill response. Service personnel participate as members of an integrated response team, responding to chemical and oil spills in all six New England states. On major spills, Service personnel work in two primary areas: spill response and damage assessment. Response activities include identification of sensitive areas, recovery of oiled wildlife for cleaning and rehabilitation, shoreline assessments, and sample collections. During and after the response effort, the Service, along with other agencies called Trustees will perform a damage assessment. They identify the natural resources injured, determine the extent of the injuries, and plan and carry out natural resource restoration activities
Oil and Nature (PDF size 101KB)
Oil Spills and the Public (PDF size 17KB)
The Service’s Role
During Oil Spills (PDF size 1.03MB)
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Useful Websites
FEDERAL AGENCIES_LINKS
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Oil Spill website
http://www.fws.gov/contaminants/Issues/OilSpill.cfm
U.S. Coast Guard National Response Center
http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/index.htm
NOAA Office of Response and Restoration
http://response.restoration.noaa.gov
EPA - Responding to Oil Spills
http://www.epa.gov/oilspill/response.htm
STATE AGENCIES_LINKS
Spills in Connecticut
http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?A=2692&Q=322584
Spills in Maine
http://www.maine.gov/dep/rwm/emergspillresp/index.htm
Spills in Massachusetts
http://mass.gov/dep/about/callnow.htm
Spills in New Hampshire
http://www.des.state.nh.us/emergency_response.htm
Spills in Vermont
http://www.anr.state.vt.us/dec/wastediv/spills/spills_program.htm
Spills in Rhode Island
http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/director/emerresp/index.htm
Oil Spills in New England where Restoration is in Progress
North Cape Oil Spill
(RI) (PDF Size 723kb)
Bouchard
Barge No. 120 Oil Spill (MA)
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