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Draft Spill Baseline & Causality Study Report Available for Review

The Glosten Associates, in collaboration with Environmental Research Consulting have prepared a draft Spill Baseline and Causality Study Report for the Cook Inlet Maritime Risk Assessment Project. The study builds from the vessel traffic study that was completed in February 2012. The intent of the Spill Baseline and Causality Study is to:

• Estimate the spill frequency and project spill size distribution by vessel type
• Develops an oil spill baseline over the 10-year study period based on projected movements of oil and the estimated average spill rate
• Characterizes spill from high-risk accidents, and
• Provides accident scenarios based on the five most dominate accident types

The results of the report will be presented to the Cook Inlet Risk Assessment Advisory Panel and Management Team at their April 23rd meeting in Anchorage, Alaska.

The goal of the Cook Inlet Maritime Risk Assessment is to answer the following questions:

• What can go wrong?
• How likely is it?
• What are the impacts?
• Can the impacts be mitigated?

A risk assessment is a systematic approach used to evaluate the level of safety of a complex system and to identify appropriate safety improvements. It is an established engineering discipline and has been used in the maritime industry in the past with varying degrees of success.

* * * DRAFT Spill Baseline & Causality Study Report * * *

see link here to the Report (3.4MB PDF file):

The Advisory Panel, Management Team and public are encouraged to review and provide comments to the Facilitation Team using the comment form link below or by email.

The deadline for comments is April 27th.

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* * * CI Vessel Traffic Study Report * * *

see link here to the Report (6.3MB PDF file):

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