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Case: Irving Oil,
Chelsea Creek, MA
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Date of incident: March 9, 2006.
Location: Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Trustees:
Case Status: Settled.
Overview: On March 9, 2006, an estimated 18,000-22,000 gallons
of diesel oil was released from a pipeline shared by Irving Oil and Global
Oil, located in Chelsea Creek, Massachusetts, during a transfer
operation. The oil affected approximately 2.5 miles of shoreline, marsh
vegetation, surface water, and benthic habitat.
While the U.S. Coast Guard, Massachusetts Department of Environmental
Protection, and the responsible parties worked to contain and clean up the oil,
the natural resource trustees initiated a natural resource damage assessment
(NRDA). The goal of NRDA is to determine the type and degree of injuries
to natural resources resulting from a spill and the restoration required
to restore those injured natural resources. NOAA, as the lead
administrative trustee for this spill, coordinated trustee efforts. Irving Oil
and Global Oil, the responsible parties, agreed to a cooperative and expedited
NRDA process.
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