Gulf Spill Incident Reaches 100 Day Mark

The NPS response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has reached its hundredth day. Here’s a short summary of some of the milestones for the National Park Service during this period:

• April 20th – An explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig kills 11 of the rig’s crew and oil begins to spill in the gulf.
• May 10th – The National Park Service and the US Fish and Wildlife directors arrive at command centers and begin rotating duties as incident commanders for DOI.
• May 12th – The first oil is spotted on NPS lands at Gulf Islands National Seashore.  
• Late May – The sensitive lands branch is created within the incident’s command structure. This is a significant, unprecedented idea within the ICS structure and provides an efficient and effective way for the NPS and USFWS to partner and protect parks and refuges.
• July 14th – The capping stack is in place and oil stops flowing into the gulf.  
• July 20th – The NPS successfully tests new equipment to remove beach tar balls at Gulf Islands National Seashore
• July 23rd - Gulf Island National Seashore hosts an excavation of an endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle nest and successfully relocates 89 eggs to the Kennedy Space Center.

• Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response
• DOI Oil Spill Response
• NPS Oil Spill Response
• National Oil Spill Response
• Restore The Gulf
• Oil Spill Safety Training
• GeoPlatform
• NPS ICS 209 Incident Status Summaries
• Gulf Islands Public Health Precautions Notice
• Public Health Service Oil Spill Safety Video
• Oil Spill Media Page