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GC-HARMS update September 2013

The “Gulf Coast Health Alliance: Health Risks Related to the Macondo Spill” (GC-HARMS) research project seeks to characterize health impacts and community resiliency factors related to the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. a collaborative response to characterizing environmental health risks and building community resiliency after the Deep Water Horizon disaster in the northern Gulf of Mexico The “Gulf Coast Health Alliance: Health Risks Related to the Macondo Spill” (GC-HARMS) research project seeks to characterize health impacts and community resiliency factors related to the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.…
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Overflight of Leaking Taylor Wells

On April 10, 2012, Gulf Monitoring Consortium (GMC) conducted an overflight of the Lower Mississippi River Delta looking for oil spills including the ongoing leak at the Taylor Well site. Paul Orr the Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper flew with a SouthWings pilot over the Mississippi River Delta south of New Orleans out to the site of the ongoing crude oil leak from the Taylor wells around 11 miles south of South Pass of the Mississippi River.…
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2011 State of the Gulf Report

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon exploded and the lives of eleven people were lost. Nine days later oil began to hit the wetlands of coastal Louisiana. Between April 22 and July 15, 2010, it is estimated that 250 million gallons of crude oil were discharged from the Deepwater Horizon well and 1.84 million gallons of Corexit 9500 and 9527, toxic oil dispersant products, were applied, making the largest percentage of the oil unrecoverable, with unknown long-term environmental impacts.…
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