Lake Washington Incident Sample Clauses

Lake Washington Incident. On March 2, 2003, the Trustees were notified of an unauthorized discharge of crude oil from a subsurface pipeline located in the Barataria estuary approximately eight miles south-southwest of Port Sulfur, Louisiana, in the vicinity of Lake Washington, Plaquemines Parish (Figure 1.1). An estimated 995 barrels (41,790 gallons) of crude oil were released into the surrounding coastal waters. The pipeline was owned and operated by EMPCo and pursuant to OPA they were identified as the statutory responsible party (RP) for the incident. A helicopter, multiple watercraft, and other shoreline cleanup assessment techniques were used to locate oil along shorelines, conduct low-altitude and water/shoreline searches for potentially oiled birds and other wildlife as well as 2 CPRA became a trustee in this matter per Louisiana Governor Xxxxx Xxxxxx’x letter to President Xxxxxx Xxxxx, dated May 20, 2010, which designated the agency as the lead state natural resource trustee.

Lake Washington Incident. Preassessment activities were conducted for the Lake Washington discharge during and after the Response phase to determine whether injury occurred to natural resources and services. The Trustees initially considered potential injuries to the following six resource categories: (1) xxxxx vegetation; (2) benthic organisms in tidally exposed mudflats; (3) water column; (4) birds; (5) other wildlife; and (6) recreational use. Two of the six potential injury categories, xxxxx vegetation and birds, were considered further by the Trustees during the Preassessment phase because marshes and birds were documented as oiled in the vicinity of the incident. Although benthic organisms in tidally-exposed mudflats, water column organisms, other wildlife species, and recreational use had the potential to be injured from the discharge, it was the opinion of the Trustees that documented xxxxx habitat and bird injuries would represent the overall injury to natural resources and services from the Lake Washington incident. The Trustees first used information collected during Response-oriented helicopter surveys of the oiled area to target subsequent on-water assessment and avian protection activities and to assign oiling categories to discrete sections of shoreline in the affected area. The area exposed by discharged oil from the incident was divided into eight zones to facilitate Response and Preassessment activities. The northern side of Zone 1 (Figure 4.1), which is approximately 3 to