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Battering the Alabama and Florida coastlines for over six hours, the storm’s impacts extended across a broad area of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Shoreline survey of oil deposits on Perdido Key, a barrier island that spans the Alabama-Florida state line, after Hurricane Sally.
This map shows the locations of oil spills and other incidents for which NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) provided scientific support for the response. It also shows the locations of other major spills, but it does not show the location of every significant oil spill.
Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (called the "Gulf oil spill"), the entrance to Perdido Pass was closed, with a barrier system in June 2010, to control tidal flow of oil entering from the Gulf of Mexico. The daily high tide was causing oil-contaminated water to enter Perdido Bay.
Answer 71 of 94: Has anyone heard how the Gulf oil spill might impact Perdido Key? We are coming in the summer for the 1st time and were nervous after hearing about the spill?
11 sie 2010 · The beaches of Perdido Key, a sand–sculpted barrier island near Pensacola, were among the first in Florida to be assaulted by the massive leak resulting from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.
29 wrz 2020 · Five miles of Florida beach and sea have been fouled with oil just two weeks after Hurricane Sally made landfall there. Samples of the oil found on Johnson Beach on Perdido Key were collected in an attempt to determine the source of the pollution, according to U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Dustin Williams.
Answer 81 of 94: Has anyone heard how the Gulf oil spill might impact Perdido Key? We are coming in the summer for the 1st time and were nervous after hearing about the spill?
