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.