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Friday, July 2, 2010

Oiled Shore Miles & Amount of Dispersants Used to Date

And you say you wanted to go SWIMMING this weekend?! I don't THINK so!

Amount of Dispersants Used
• Surface dispersant used: approximately 1.03 million gallons
• Subsea dispersant: more than 577,000 gallons
• Total dispersant used: approximately 1.61 million gallons

Shoreline impacted:
• approximately 423 miles of Gulf Coast shoreline is currently oiled
• approximately 259 miles in Louisiana
• 48 miles in Mississippi, 47 miles in Alabama
• 69 miles in Florida

Source: US Fish & Wildlife Deepwater Horizon Response
http://www.fws.gov/home/dhoilspill/whatyou.html

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