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Case: Cosco Busan, CA

Date of incident: November 7, 2007.

Location: Central San Francisco Bay, California.

Trustees:

Case status:  Injury assessment and restoration planning are in progress.

Overview:  The container ship M/V Cosco Busan struck one of the towers of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco Bay, CA, at 08:30 PST November 7, 2007. The impact tore a large gash in the hull of the vessel, and 53,000 gallons of fuel oil (IFO 380) was released into the water. The oil quickly spread to other parts of San Francisco Bay and the outer coast (north and south of the Golden Gate), washing ashore along many miles of sensitive coastline, including beaches, rocky intertidal habitats, coastal lagoons and wetlands. While response agencies worked to contain and clean up the oil, the natural resource Trustees initiated a natural resource damage assessment (NRDA). The Lead Administrative Trustee agency is the California Department of Fish and Game. The Responsible Parties (RPs) have been cooperating with the Trustees in planning and carrying out NRDA activities. In January 2010 the Trustees published a Notice of Intent to Conduct Restoration Planning (NOI) and opened a publically available Administrative Record. The NOI and an index for the Administrative Record are available on this web site by clicking the Case Documents link to the right.

 

  The container ship M/V Cosco Busan after striking the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge (Photo provided by US Coast Guard District 11 Public Affairs)
The container ship M/V Cosco Busan after striking the San Francisco Oakland Bay Brdige (Photo provided by US Coast Guard District 11 Public Affairs)
     



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