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Workers using high-pressure, hot-water washing to clean an oiled shoreline. In this treatment method, used on many Prince William Sound beaches, oil is hosed from beaches, collected within floating boom, then skimmed from the water surface. Other common treatment methods included cold-water flushing of beaches, manual beach cleaning (by hand or with absorbent pom-poms), bioremediation (application of fertilizers to stimulate growth of local bacteria, which degrade oil), and the mechanical relocation of oiled sediments to places where they could be cleaned by wave and tide action. NOAA photo and caption text.


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current14:50, 17 March 2026Thumbnail for version as of 14:50, 17 March 20262,979 × 2,025 (3.42 MB)EoRdE6Higher resolution version from https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/spill-cleanup-methods#slideshow-12
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