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Final Supplemental Environmental Assessment for Salt Marsh, Fish Passage, and Eelgrass Restoration Addressing the Bouchard Barge-120 (B-120) Buzzards Bay Oil Spill: Shoreline, Aquatic and Natural Resource Use Injuries, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
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2017
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Description:On April 27, 2003, the Bouchard Barge-120 (B-120), owned and operated by the Bouchard Transportation Company, Inc., struck a rocky shoal, soon after entering the western approach to Buzzards Bay in southeastern Massachusetts. The grounding ruptured a 12-foot hole in the hull of the barge, releasing approximately 98,000 gallons of No. 6 fuel oil into the Bay. The oil spill in Buzzards Bay resulted in substantial natural resource injuries and lost public uses, including marsh habitat, estuarine and tidal freshwater habitats, and eelgrass habitat. This triggered an environmental damage assessment and injury restoration process in accordance with the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) (33 U.S.C. Section 2701, et seq.).
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