SHORELINE CLEANUP AND WASTE DISPOSAL ISSUES DURING THE SEA EMPRESS INCIDENT

Abstract

When the Sea Empress ran aground at the entrance to Milford Haven at 2007 hours on Thursday, February 15, 1996, she lost a total of 72,000 tons of crude oil over a period of 7 days. Another paper in this session gives an overview of the incident and describes the response at sea. This paper describes the shoreline cleanup operation as it was directed by the joint response center (JRC) set up at Milford Haven.