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Photo Gallery: Oil Spill Cleanup
March 2009
USAID has completed a $5.8 million project to clean up 43 locations along a 60-kilometer stretch of Lebanon's northern seashore. Begun in 2006, the program was developed in partnership with Lebanon's Environment Ministry and employed more than 220 local workers. For more information, see the full press release.
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The last activity of USAID's oil spill cleanup intervention was completed on March 13, 2009. A contaminated sand pile (~2,000 m3) that has been collected over the two-year cleanup intervention was transported from the Byblos public sandy beach to a location designated by the Ministry of Environment. |
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The location of the contaminated sand at the Byblos public sandy beach before (left) and after (right) removal of the pile. Around 37 km north of Beirut, the port at Byblos is one of the oldest continuously inhabited ports in the world dating back 7,000 years to early Phoenician civilization. |
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| | Photos show the manual recovery of submerged oil by professional divers in front of the Byblos sandy beach. |
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A worker cleans rocks with a high-pressure water jet at Deir El Natour in North Lebanon. |
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Deir El Natour Before |
Deir El Natour After
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Time-consuming manual methods of cleanup were inevitable in some locations. Photos show the manual pickup of contaminated gravel (Byblos Port Jetty [left]) and the manual removal of dried fuel tar pieces (Deir El Natour [right]). |
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Workers use a hammer and chisel to manually remove stubborn dried tar pieces in Deir El Natour. |
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Enfeh Before |
Enfeh After |
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Berbara (Sundowner) Before |
Berbara (Sundowner) After
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Amchit Before |
Amchit After |
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Public Beach (Naher Ibraheem) Before |
Public Beach (Naher Ibraheem) After
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Safra Before |
Safra After |
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