Loop Marine and Estuarine Monitoring Program, 1978–95: Volume 2: Water Chemistry

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• Alternative Title:
  LOOP marine and estuarine monitoring program, 1978-95.
• Creators:
  Turner, R. Eugene ; Swenson, Erick M. ; Kasprzak, Michelle ; Romaire, Terry
• Corporate Creators:
  Louisiana State University. Center for Coastal, Energy, and Environmental Resources ; Louisiana. Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Coastal Ecology Section
• Corporate Contributors:
  Louisiana Transportation Research Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Monitoring
  • Seas
  • Environmental protection
  • Chemical analysis
  • Water quality
  • Caverns
  • Pipelines
  • Oil spills
  • Finance
  • Offshore oil industry
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  316
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Louisiana ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Louisiana State University. Center for Coastal, Energy, and Environmental Resources
• Abstract:
  The proposed construction and use of facilities in an environmentally sensitive area led to questions about various consequential environmental impacts arising from the following activities: 1) oil storage caverns were created by leaching out a salt dome at Clovelly. The water used to leach the cavern was sent, by pipeline, to the offshore disposal site (brine diffuser). The water therefore bypassed the usual route through the estuary; 2) the brine (average 200 parts per thousand (ppm)) and other leachtes were disposed offshore into a major US fishing zone; 3) a pipeline corridor and subsequent activities occurred during and after facility operations; 5) many small and a few large oil spills were reported. A water quality environmental sampling program was established by the State of Louisiana and operated by the Departmenet of Wildlife and Fisheries from 1978 to 1995 to monitor the inshore and offshore area potentially impacted by the project. These are the water chemistry data that are analyzed herein.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  LTRC Project No. 97-3IMP ; State Project No. 736-99-0449 ; LSU Project No. 169-25-4115
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/22204/dot_22204_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.84 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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