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API PUBL 4580 Document Information:
Title
1993 Oil Spill Conference
American Petroleum Institute
Publication Date:
Jan 1, 1993
Scope:
Scope of the manual
The (draft) manual contains guidelines for the selection of oil spill
protection and cleanup techniques. The selection process focuses on
the identification of techniques that themselves would have minimal
intrinsic ecological impacts and that also would minimize the
ecological impacts of the oil in inland waters. A secondary aspect of
the manual is to provide this direction while recognizing potential
human health risks of the spill and response methods. The manual can
be used as an aid in contingency planning or as an aid to field
response, when consensus decisions must be reached rapidly.
The manual is intended to present the ecologically preferred response
options for a variety of freshwater habitats, oil types, and spill
conditions. Seven habitats were identified in the original workshop
discussions. In turn, these were subdivided during work sessions,
which resulted in a total of ten primary habitats for the manual.
• large rivers
• small rivers and streams
• Great Lakes
open water
nearshore
• inland lakes and ponds
• marsh/wetlands
• rock shorelines or man-made structures
• gravel shorelines (coarse-grained beaches/river bars)
• sand shorelines
• mud shorelines
Note that the Great Lakes are considered in terms of open water and
nearshore habitats.
Response techniques are described for protection, cleanup, and
treatment methods. Each technique was evaluated as a counter-measure
for four oil types: gasoline, diesel/No. 2 fuel oil, medium grade
crude, and bunker C/No. 6 fuel oil. Furthermore, each technique was
evaluated for three degrees of impact from each oil type: low,
moderate, and high oiling.
Specifically, the manual provides a description of protection and
cleanup techniques, summary tables that indicate the intrinsic impact
of a particular technique on habitats in the absence of oil, decision
trees for protection and cleanup, and protection and cleanup summary
matrices for habitats and for four oil types.
Sections for each habitat contain a description of the habitat, a
relative sensitivity ranking, and a matrix of response options in
terms of impact on the habitat and recommendation for use of each
method for each of the four oil types.
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