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SPILL RESPONSE

Spill Prevention & Response:

Old Lessons, New Challenges

Emerging spill response trends f t into two big categories: technology and a combination of economic and social forces. Both will shape what comes next.

By Tom Ewing

Credit: and paid for by Sea-Machines lorida’s stunning Tampa Bay stands out as exactly the

Preparing for – and Preventing the Next big One kind of place where you have to think about hazard- The Tampa Bay Estuary Program (TBEP) was estab-

Fous materials emergencies. It was 25 years ago, on lished by Congress (in 1991) to assist with Bay protection

August 10, 1993, that a freighter collided with two barges and improvement efforts. TBEP has a “Comprehensive near the entrance of Tampa Bay, causing a