SERA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
For more information
If you have questions,
comments or need more
information about the
Enbridge oil spill you can
contact:
Don de Blasio
EPA Community
Involvement Coordinator
Cell Phone: 312-343-6666
Office Phone: 312-886-4360
deblasio.don@epa.gov
On the Web
EPA has established a
website at www.epa.gov/
enbridgespill to provide
information about the
response.
More contacts
Public
800-306-6837 (toll-free)
News media
877-440-7157
spillpress@epa.gov
Community centers
For claims, compensation
and job information, every
day, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.:
In Marshall—333 S.
Kalamazoo Ave.
In Battle Creek—77 E.
Michigan Ave.
Official Document
Repository
Marshall District Library
124 W. Green St.
Oil Spill: Agencies Plan
Long-Term Activities
Enbridge Oil Spill
Marshall, Michigan
October 2010
EPA and other members of the Unified Command continue to monitor
Enbridge Energy's efforts to clean up the large crude oil spill that
occurred in late July. Although most of the oil has been cleaned up, work
continues.
What's Been Done To Date
Under EPA's administrative order to Enbridge, and as directed by the
Unified Command, the following actions have occurred to date:
•	Extensive air, water and soil monitoring and sampling have been
conducted to assess risks to human health arid the environment.
•	Thousands of animals have been rescued, cleaned and released under
the wildlife recovery program.
•	All visible oil has been removed from the source area. This includes
collecting free oil, removing contaminated soil from around the
pipeline, and scraping surface soil off approximately 5-acres of
contaminated land.
Recovering oil from sediment at several locations, including dredging
near the Ceresco Dam.
•	All visible oil has been removed
from Talmadge Creek and its
banks and floodplain. This
was accomplished by free oil
recovery along with soil and
vegetation removal.
•	All disturbed areas at the
source area and Talmadge
Creek have been replanted with
native vegetation.
•	All visible oil has been removed
from the surface waters of the
Kalamazoo River.
•	All identified free oil has been
removed from riverbanks and
floodplains.
•	Most of the areas where
submerged oil was identified
have been cleaned up.
Contractors ivork to restore an affected
area along Talmadge Creek.
Ongoing Work
On Sept. 23, 2010, EPA issued a supplemental administrative order to
Enbridge to conduct additional work on this response. Those efforts will
focus on:

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•	Inspecting and maintaining booms to contain
and collect oil that releases from submerged oil
recovery operations.
•	Developing longer-term remediation plans for
approval.
•	Developing long-term monitoring plans, which
include ground water (underground water
supplies) sampling.
This followed an earlier order which required
Iiabridge to:
•	Stop the flow of oil into Talmadge Creek and the
Kalamazoo River.
•	Clean up the oil and contaminated soil in the
immediate vicinity of the release.
•	Sample air, water and sediment.
•	Clean up all affected areas along Talmadge
Creek, the Kalamazoo River and Morrow Lake by
Sept. 27.
What's Next
As this phase of the incident winds down and long-
term cleanup plans are put into place, the public will
see the following actions at Talmadge Creek and the
Kalamazoo River well into next year:
•	Monitoring of riverbank and floodplain areas that
were affected by the spill.
•	Containment devices (boom, pads, etc.) will be
placed to capture any residual contamination that
releases to the river.
•	Sampling and monitoring of ground water.
•	Cleaning up any oil discovered as a result of
monitoring. Field response teams ("Hot Shot"
teams) will remain in place to conduct minor
cleanup work.
Over the next month, MDNRE will oversee plans to
ensure affected water resources and soil are cleaned
and restored according to state environmental
laws and standards. Although MDNRE will be the
primary coordinator of these efforts, EPA officials
will remain on-site as long as necessary to monitor
ongoing operation and maintenance activities.
Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Teams, or SCATs, ensure
the cleanup does not harm the environment.
The Response by the Numbers
Total Personnel Responding to the Spill	Feet of Boom Deployed

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