Chalk Point Oil Spill, MD

Location: Maryland

Summary: Cardno ENTRIX provided comprehensive NRDA and emergency response services in response to the release of approximately 125,000 gallons of fuel oil into a tributary of Chesapeake Bay from a pipeline servicing an electric power generating station in 2000. NRDA services included: site surveys to assess impacts to, and recovery of, aquatic resources; birds; protected species; marsh habitat; and lost human use. These cooperative studies were used to develop restoration projects to restore injured resources and recreational services. Response services included: emergency response oiled shoreline surveys; video surveys; bioremediation monitoring; and long-term monitoring of the persistence of oil along shorelines (beaches and marshes) and surface waters in the spill area.