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Alewife are spawning in the lake again, most likely for the first time since the creek was impounded more than 175 years ago.

Hazardous Waste Site | Massapequa Creek, Farmingdale NY | 1930’s to Present

What Happened?

The Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 06:56
Thursday, August 20, 2020 - 17:39
Hempstead Harbor successfully restored its salt marsh a few years ago, and will use the funds to remove invasive plants as part of its long term management efforts.

Hazardous Waste Site | Glen Cove, NY | 1960s to Present

The Mattiace Petrochemical Co., Inc. site is located adjacent to Garvies Point Preserve along the north shore of Glen Cove Creek, a tributary to Hempstead Harbor on the north shore of Long Island. Beginning in the 1960s, chemical storage, blending, repackaging, and drum cleaning took place on site. Drum cleaning wastes were stored in a wet well and a leaching pool where they contaminated groundwater. Hazardous wastes reached the creek via runoff, underground piping, and groundwater discharge.

The Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program
Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 07:04
Thursday, August 20, 2020 - 17:41
Hudson River shoreline looking south from a location just upriver. Contamination found within and below the river sediments shown in this photo.

Hazardous Waste Site | Edgewater, NJ | 1930 to present

The Quanta Resources Corporation site in Edgewater, NJ, is a former oil and tar storage and recycling facility on approximately 8 acres. The site is adjacent to the lower Hudson River, approximately 9.9 miles upstream of Upper New York Bay.

The Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program
Friday, June 3, 2016 - 11:17
Thursday, August 20, 2020 - 17:45
Hardwood forest within the Belt Woods Natural Environment Area.

Hazardous Waste Site | Rosedale, Maryland | 1953 – 1970

What Happened?

The Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program
Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 05:50
Monday, August 24, 2020 - 11:50
The San Miguel Natural Reserve was acquired with settlement funds to compensate the public for lost recreational use of the beaches impacted by the spill.

Oil Spill | San Juan, PR | January 7, 1994

What Happened?

On January 7, 1994, the T/B Morris J. Berman—a 302-foot-long barge loaded with 1.5 million gallons of fuel oilbroke away from its tow line and drifted around near San Juan, Puerto Rico. The barge grounded on a nearby coral reef, rupturing seven fuel holding tanks and released approximately 800,000 gallons of fuel oil into nearshore waters.

The Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program
Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 04:35
Monday, August 17, 2020 - 17:15
The Swan Lake restoration shows constructed wavebreaks provide protection, prevent erosion and trap contaminated sediments.

Hazardous Waste Site | Texas City, Texas | 1941 – 1991 

The Tex Tin Corporation and other responsible parties operated a tin smelting plant at this site from 1941 until 1991. Industrial activities included tin ore processing, acid recovery operations, heavy metals recovery operations, copper washing operations using ammonia, and land filling with radioactive materials.

The Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 07:14
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 14:32
A salt marsh channel landscape with a cloudy sky.

Hazardous Waste Site | Stratford, CT | 1919 to Present

Beginning in 1919, Raymark Industries, Inc. manufactured automotive parts at a 34-acre property along the Housatonic River estuary. Raymark initially disposed of manufacturing wastes on-site, but waste materials were also released to Ferry Creek via a culvert from on-site waste lagoons. Lagoon waste sludge was also used as fill on multiple residential, commercial, and municipal properties in Stratford, and in several wetland sites draining to the Housatonic River.

The Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 07:59
Monday, August 24, 2020 - 12:41
In 1996, the tank barge North Cape and the tugboat Sandia grounded off the coast of Rhode Island resulting the worst oil spill in the state's history.

Oil Spill | Block Island Sound, RI | January 1996

What Happened?

On January 19, 1996, the tank barge, North Cape, and the tugboat, Scandia, grounded off Moonstone Beach in southwestern Rhode Island, spilling an estimated 828,000 gallons of home heating oil. This spill was the worst in Rhode Island history, with oil spreading throughout a broad area of Block Island Sound and beyond, including shoreline of the Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge (NWR).

The Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program
Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 11:35
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 - 07:58
Oil pits dominated the Malone site prior to the cleanup.

Hazardous Waste Site | Texas City, Texas | 1964 – 1997

From 1964 to 1997, on the shores of Swan Lake and Galveston Bay, the Malone Services Company operated a reclamation, storage and disposal facility for waste oils, chemicals, and hazardous wastes. During its operation, hundreds of businesses sent more than 480 million gallons of organic and inorganic waste to the facility. Wastes were stored in two earthen, unlined pits which released contaminants to the groundwater within the site, and runoff into surface waters.

The Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program
Thursday, March 17, 2016 - 05:29
Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 10:37
View of the Penobscot River looking just north of the site from the southeast side of the river.

Oil Spill | Hampden, Maine |

What Happened?

The Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 11:36
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - 15:38

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