What We Do
We conduct Natural Resource Damage Assessments to assess and restore natural resources after oil spills, ship groundings, and hazardous releases. Learn about this process—what triggers it, who performs it, and what the outcomes are.
DARRP Accomplishment Outreach
- NOAA Ocean Podcast: Restoration: Replacing What Was Lost
- NOAA Video Message: Working Together to Restore Polluted Waterways
- National Ocean Service Web Story 2024: $40 million recovered from polluters for restoration in three states
- ArcGIS Story Map: NOAA's Damage Assessment, Remediation, or Restoration Program, Learn About Our Work in Your State
Restoration Success Stories
- More Than 30 Acres of New Reef Habitat Built Off the Southern California Coast
- Three Partner-Driven Projects Restoring Polluted California Habitats
- Tidal Flow Restored to 353 Acres at Blue Heron Slough in Western Washington State
- To Restore Gulf Fish, Shrimpers Test Better Gear for Reducing Bycatch
- Rescued from Deepwater Horizon, a Resilient Native Returns to Queen Bess Island
- Habitat Restoration Supports Jobs, Stewardship
- Preserving 1,700 Acres of Habitat to Increase Cape Fear River Basin Resiliency
- Restoring the Gulf: 10 Years After Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
- Restoration for the Rising Tide
- Story Map: Refugio Beach Oil Spill: Mapping NOAA's Work from Response to Restoration
- Blowing up Bloede Dam: Patapsco River Resumes Natural Course for First Time in 112 Years
- Oyster Reefs Breathe New Life into Virginia’s Elizabeth River
- Video: A River Reborn: Restoring Salmon Habitat along the Duwamish River
- Video: Renewed Passage: Buzzards Bay to the Acushnet River
- 30 Years of West Coast Salmon Restoration: By the Numbers
- 14 Projects Approved to Restore Parts of the Kalamazoo River
- 30 Years of Restoring Waterways After Pollution
- Restoring Rivers to Reverse Impacts from Pollution
