This website has been developed to track developments and improvements in techniques relating to oil spill beach cleaning.

Cleaning shorelines impacted by oil spills are extremely difficult.  Cleaning  contaminated beaches are a complex challenge.

There are a number of primary factors that impact the effectiveness of beach cleaning:

• Type of Beach
• Type of oil residue
• Quantity of oil residue
• Temperature of water
• Temperature of air
• Lenth of time oil in water
• Length of time oil on beach

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