The Ohio River Oil Spill: A Case Study

Abstract

The spill of diesel oil fuel in January 1988 raised a number of technical, legislative, and administrative issues—such as assessing long‐ and short‐term environmental damage, evaluating regulations regarding oil tanks, and examining spill response procedures. An important research need is the development of computer models that can better predict the travel time and the concentration of contaminants should a spill occur.

The Public Value of Reducing the Incidence of Oil Spill Accidents in Korean Rivers

“…The task of dealing with the measurement of the public value of reducing the incidence of oil spill accidents or the damage cost caused by oil spill accidents is the responsibility of researchers [14][15][16][17][18]. There have been many studies on this measurement, as reported in Table 1.…”

Can We Better Protect Vulnerable Water Supplies?

“…A perusal of the J ournal over the past half century reveals numerous articles that discuss major industrial spills, regulatory issues associated with spills, treatment options, early warning systems, and other related issues. For example, Biemond (1963) discussed the impacts of single massive industrial discharges, Symons (1984) traced the federal government's attempts to require certain water systems to use granular activated carbon treatment for the removal of synthetic organic contaminants resulting from industrial discharges, Deininger (1987) described a disastrous industrial spill on the Rhine River that resulted in major environmental damage, Clark et al (1989) discussed the use of computer models to predict the movement of spills on the Lower Mississippi River, Clark et al (1990) described a major oil spill that impacted the Ohio River, and Gullick et al (2003) described the design of early‐warning monitoring and modeling systems for source waters. Several of these articles focus on the Ohio River system—the same rivers affected by the West Virginia spill—and the role of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) as the lead agency in tracking and managing spills on the Ohio River and its tributaries.…”

Integrating long-term stewardship goals into the remediation process: Natural resource damages and the Department of Energy

“…However, NRDAs are often calculated in human terms as the loss of specific services, such as decreased catch rates of fish following releases of wastes (Iadanza et al, 1999;Morey et al, 2002), loss of drinking water because of oil spills (Clark et al, 1990), and loss of groundwater for residential, industrial or commercial use (Dunford, 2000). These ecological services are often valued in terms of replacement costs, willingness to pay, willingness to accept compensation (Brown and Gregory, 1999;Dunford et al, 2003), demand functions (Dunford, 2000), contingency valuation (Montesinos, 1999;Dunford, 2000), and existence values (McConnell, 1997).…”