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Coast Guard boats skimming surface oil from Shell Green Canyon oil spill site

Natural Resource Trustees Request Public Comments on Draft Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment for the Shell Green Canyon 248 Oil Spill
Overflight photo of shoreline sheening and recovery operations (NOAA).

$19.69 M Proposed for Restoration on Calcasieu River, Louisiana
Aerial photo of batture with oiling from Barge DM932 Oil Spill

Trustees for Gretna DM 932 Mississippi River Oil Spill Release Draft Restoration Plan for Public Comment
Freshwater creek running through the bottomland hardwood habitat of Simmons Tract.

The latest on the Ciba-Geigy Natural Resource Damages Assessment Restoration Efforts in McIntosh, Alabama
Aerial view of the Dupont Beaumont site and surrounding wetlands (Credit: NOAA).

475 Acres of Wetlands Preserved in Perpetuity, Proposed Restoration Plan for Dupont Beaumont Works West Marsh Site in Texas
Underwater image of corals that were grown from fragments in an underwater "nursery" then outplanted to damaged reefs.

Draft Compensatory Restoration Plan for the T/V Margara Incident Released for Public Comment
Wetlands and beach at Carolina Beach State Park, NC.

10 Projects, $12 million, Approved to Restore North Carolina Habitat After Superfund Site Pollution
A Brown Pelican lands on the restored Queen Bess Island.

Rescued from Deepwater Horizon, a Resilient Native Returns to Queen Bess Island
Underwater oyster reef

Trustees release Final Supplement to the Final Koppers Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment
Oysters on an oyster reef.

Draft Supplement to the Koppers Restoration Plan Released for Public Comment
Catching crabs with baited bags on line. Crabs netted at surface and measured for keeper size on deck.

Crabbing and Fishing Pier Project Approved for South Carolina Oil Spill Restoration
An angler on a boat on the Cape Fear River at sunset.

$11 Million Proposed to Restore North Carolina Habitats after Decades of Chemical Pollution
Two fishing reels with sky in the background

Comments Welcomed on Cooper River/M/V Everreach Draft Restoration Plan for Recreational Uses
A loggerhead turtle swimming by divers in the Gulf of Mexico.

Comments Welcomed on Deepwater Horizon Open Ocean Draft Restoration Plan
Dark oil photographed during a Coast Guard overflight on May 12, 2016.

Shell Green Canyon Settlement: $3.65 million for Restoration in the Gulf of Mexico
A diver with a camera takes video and photos in a coral nursery.

Dive into 2017 Gulf Spill Restoration Project Data
Aerial photo of the Mississippi coast with a living shoreline project that includes natural and artificial breakwater material and marsh creation to reduce shoreline erosion.

Gulf Spill Restoration: Two Years After Settlement
Deepwater Horizon Trustee staff in boats and on marsh shorelines look at oil on the water's surface.

Deepwater Horizon: Louisiana Trustees Finalize Barataria Strategic Restoration Plan
Participants celebrate the re-opening of Jeff Friend Trail at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge in Gulf Shores, Alabama (photo U.S. Dept. of Interior)

Trail Reopening Event Highlights Significance of Ecotourism in Gulf
Marshes were one of many critical habitats for fish and birds affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

The Latest Update from the Deepwater Horizon NRDA Trustee Council

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View of saltmarsh on edge of water at Port of Baldwin Mines, South Carolina.

ExxonMobil Former Fertilizer Plants
Oil can be seen rising to the surface at the origin of the slick emanating from the Taylor MC20 site. Credit: NOAA

Taylor Energy
Marsh habitat restored at the Bailey Waste site. (USFWS)

Bailey Waste Disposal Site
Dark oil photographed during a Coast Guard overflight on May 12, 2016.

Shell Green Canyon 248
Aerial view of site (cleared area) and surrounding wetlands

Dupont Beaumont
Pre-Construction at Noisette Creek. This former Naval Base golf course abuts Noisette Creek, off the Cooper River in Charleston South Carolina.

Cooper River/ MV Everreach
Restored wetland at the Raleigh Street Dump site.

Raleigh Street Dump
Overflight photo of shoreline sheening and recovery operations.

Citgo Refinery - Calcasieu River
Two days after the spill occurred, oil had spread nearly 100 miles downriver, and carried into forested batture habitat making oil recovery and cleanup difficult.

Fuel Barge DM932
koppers site

Koppers Co, Inc.
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.

Barge Berman
Oil pits dominated the Malone site prior to the cleanup.

Malone Service Company
A large coral split by the grounding, was part of the initial damage assessment compiled by NOAA. (Sea Ventures Inc. photo)

LNG Carrier Matthew
Broken corals were draped on a floating coral array frame in order to grow bigger. Divers attached Acropora coral fragments, one of many coral types affected by the grounding.

T/V Port Stewart
The Trustees are studying the impacts to recreational fishing which has been limited in Bayou d'Inde since 1987 and the Calcasieu since 1992.

Bayou d'Inde
A Coast Guard response boat patrolled the Kirby Barge 27706 during cleanup efforts near Texas City Dike on March 23, 2014. (USCG)

Texas City Y
Deepwater Horizon explosion.

Deepwater Horizon
Aerial map illustration showing the location of the former Kerr-McKee wood-treatment processing plant in Navassa, NC.

Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. (Tronox)
Phosphogypsum stack breach released acidic, nutrient-rich water into surrounding wetlands and waterways.

Mosaic
Disabled Tank Barge DBL 152 vessel before capsizing showing discharge of oil.

Tank Barge DBL 152
Sand cap being placed on floodplain in 2008.

Ciba-Geigy
Co-trustees monitor the progress of a restoration pilot study completed in 2006.

Mulberry
Crews on the surface pull a casita, an illegal structure used to lure in lobsters, from the waters of Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Casitas Removal
Aerial view of LCP Chemical site and upland marsh along the Turtle River.

LCP Chemical
T/V Margara aground with tugs alongside.

T/V Margara
Response barges are anchored near the M/V Jireh. (USCG)

M/V Jireh

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A black-necked Stilt and Snowy Egrets in restored wetland habitat. Photo provided courtesy of Chevron.

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