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Buzzards Bay Oil Spill


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Aerial photo of booms in water with a bridge above the water. Cleaning crews on beach putting debris into plastic bags. Tarball on beach with a pen beside it. Oil patties on the beach with a pen beside one of them. Cleaning crews used absorbent pads to remove oil from rocks and boulders.  Then, put them in plastic bags. Snare on beach. Worker deploying snare off of a rocky beach into the water. Aerial photo of shoreline covered with oil. Aerial photo of oil in tide.
Oiled snare on the beach. Oiled snare on the beach sitting in the sunlight. Workers picking up oiled snare on beach for disposal. Oiled seagrass covering the beach. Two people on the beach with a snare. Oil covered rocks. Oiled rocks and tar patties on the beach of Barneys Joy. Oiled snare on beach awaiting disposal. A thick band of pooled oil covers the beach.

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