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Case: Bermuda Islander,
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Date of incident: April 25, 2006.
Location: Shoreline of Delaware Bay.
Trustees:
Case status: Settlement reached, restoration planning
underway.
Overview: On April 25, 2006, an approximately six-mile-long oil
slick in Delaware Bay was reported by a tugboat crewman. A few days later, a
sample of the released oil was matched to an oil sample taken from a container
ship, the Bermuda Islander. The total volume of oil released and the
cause of the release are unknown. The spill impacted approximately 40 miles of
the western shoreline (Delaware side) and less than one mile of the eastern
shoreline (New Jersey side) of Delaware Bay.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as the lead administrative Trustee for this
spill, coordinated the natural resource damage assessment (NRDA)
activities. The Trustees and the responsible party, the owner and operator of
the Bermuda Islander, worked together on a cooperative NRDA
process. A settlement has been reached which will provide $270,000 for trustee
assessment costs and to restore injuries to shoreline habitat and associated
fauna.
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