Irving Oil and Global Oil have agreed to acquire, place, and regularly practice deploying, a boom system at the entrance to Mill Creek, a small waterway with a healthy intertidal marsh lining its banks. The responsible parties are performing this project under the direction and requirements of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. This effort will prevent Mill Creek from being impacted by future releases.

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs and the responsible parties, with extensive input from local interest groups and in consultation with NOAA, determined that limited restoration options of an appropriate scale exist in the vicinity of the assessment area. However, the responsible parties voluntarily committed to conduct trash cleanup projects on Mill Creek. Unfortunately, Mill Creek receives a large amount of trash from nearby roads, wind, and direct dumping. Irving Oil, using company employees and a local contractor, completed a highly successful trash cleanup on June 1, 2006. Global Oil will conduct a similar cleanup at a time to be determined. This much needed effort will improve the quality of the surface water and shoreline habitats utilized by NOAA trust resources.

NOAA was pleased with Irving and Global’s commitment to a cooperative process and determined that no further action is warranted for this spill.