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The
Office of Oil and Gas Final Report
The
Office of Oil and Gas released its Buckeye
Creek Discharge Final Report in June 2010. Their website
also presents two other reports, Downstream
Strategies' report for Louanne Fatora and the Water
Assessment Branch May 2010 survey of Buckeye Creek (the
Water Assessment Branch's November 2009 survey is included
in the Office's Final Report as an appendix).
The
Final Report collects and presents (in the appendices) all
the pertinent information about the spill. Its text provides
a description of the cleanup effort based on Inspector Scranage's
report and an overview of the laboratory analyses of samples.
What is missing is the reason why the spill was linked to
Tapo Energy's Powell #7 well or an assessment of the cause
of the spill and whether it was preventable.
Also
missing is a map to help locate the features of the cleanup
described or locations of samples collected for laboratory
analysis by various entities. The Water Assessment Branch
reports do include maps, locations where samples were collected
and photographs.
Our
comments on the Office's Final Report can be downloaded.
We believe the Office could have done more to determine the
source and cause of the spill.
Go
to the next page -- Conclusions.
The
Spill at Buckeye Creek
Background |
Photos, part 1| Photos, part 2|
Photos, part 3| Photos, part 4
Timeline | Laboratory
Tests | Conclusions
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