Before and after an oil spill
Subtitle: the Arthur Kill
By: edited by Joanna Burger.
Contributors: Burger, Joanna.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Exxon Corporation.; Oil spills and wildlife -- Arthur Kill (N.J. and N.Y.); Oil spills -- Environmental aspects -- Arthur Kill (N.J. and N.Y); Oil pollution of rivers, harbors, etc. -- Arthur Kill (N.J. and N.Y.)
Other titles: Before & after an oil spill.
Description: In January 1990, New York Harbor suffered a major oil spill when an underwater pipe at an Exxon refinery leaked into the Arthur Kill, the fifteen-mile strait that runs between New Jersey and Staten Island, New York. The waterway is home to herons and egrets, fiddler crabs and sea turtles, and a favorite place for recreational fishing, bird-watching, hiking, and boating. It is also lined with refineries and a busy corridor for oil tankers.

Because this industrial activity posed such a threat to the fragile ecosystem, biologists had been monitoring the region's water, soil, vegetation, and wildlife for some time before the oil spill. Thus, we have before-and-after data about the habitat - the only oil spill anywhere for which this is true.

. This unique book discusses the human consequences of the oil spill as well as providing detailed studies of its effects on the plants and animals of the Arthur Kill. Biologists, environmentalists, lawyers, and officials worldwide will find this book an essential guide to dealing with - and possibly preventing - future environmental disasters.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Spine title: Before & after an oil spill.